So, what you are trying to do is hook a USB 1.1 interfaced hard drive to your Firewire 400 port via the adapter?
If so, what do you hope to accomplish that hooking directly to a USB port wouldn't?
Seems to me (off the top of my head) all you'll achieve is slowing the firewire down to 12 ms/s (USB 1.1) and possibly confuse or conflict your system into unneeded issues. Issues like sleep issues, kernel panic, system freeze, etc.
How about more info on the adapter....... Maker?
Feb 3, 2007 11:50 PM
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