Confused and need help with firewire pin config.

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Hopefully someone has done this before. Anyway, I just bought a Soyo Bayone UFO flash memory reader/writer that also has 2 usb 2.0 and 2 firewire ports. The firewire cable is what is giving me the problem. My motherboard (Gig. 7N400 Pro) has the pins on the mobo listed and the Soyo bay has some others listed in the manual..... Anyone used one of these that could help me figure out what goes where?

 

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Although I do not have your exact motherboard (I have the Gig. 8KNXP), I did purchase the Soyo BayOne UFO USB 2.0, 6 in 1 Flash memory and Firewire device. I too was initially perplexed as the Soyo instructions (page 11) kept referencing the 1394?s Gray wire as ?shell?. They also referenced the White wire as ?VP?, but I figured out that white wire mates to the Gigabyte 1394 pins named ?power?. I found a web site http://frontx.com/cpx105_2.html that had an excellent 1394 pin-out description, including the ?illusive? wire known in Soyo circles as ?shell?. Evidently some 1394 applications have an optional ground known as ?S-GND?. According to the web site referenced above, if your motherboard does not have a pin-out for S-GND one does not need to worry. On my 8KNXP, one 1394 connection had it (F1_1394, Pin 10), but my other connector F2_1394 did not?. go figure!

I hope this helps?. The Frontx web site really clarified this enigma for me.

Good Luck

Ken


Great Link for 1394 pin-out assignments