Bought this firewire pcmcia card from newegg.com here
USB IEEE 1394 2 Port Hi-Speed Card Bus PCMCIA for PC or Mac. The transfer rate are 400Mbit/sec, and very useful for DV, MO, HDD?etc, and some other devices with 1394 interface.
Specifications:
PCMCIA Type II
Fully supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 Standard for high-performance Serial Bus and the P13
Supports up to 63 devices that can be run simultaneously on a system
Supports Windows 98SE,Windows ME,Windows 2000,Windows XP
l Supports MAC OS 8.6 , 9.1
I connected an external firewire casing with a 48x LITEON CD-R... all to my laptop DELL LATITUDE C600
The card wont work.. has a big exclamation mark saying that the device is not availble.... tried again few hours later, the device is recognized but now there is memory conflict everywhere... IM SO MAD
SHould i just get myself a expensive name brand pcmcia card?? like adaptec or soemthing... sigh.. just was trying to save money... help!
here is my laptop cardbus spec:
CardBus controller Texas Instruments PCI 1420 CardBus controller
PC Card connectors two Type II cards in any combination;
one Type III card used only in the lower connector
The lower connector supports zoomed video (ZV) cards on computers running the Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Windows 98 operating system. The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system does not support ZV.
Cards supported 3.3-V and 5-V
Type II and Type III PC Cards (including memory cards)
ATA cards that emulate IDE hard-disk drives
I/O cards such as modems, LAN cards, wireless LAN cards, and SCSI cards
PC Card connector size 68 pins
Data width (maximum):
PCMCIA
16 bits
CardBus
32 bits
USB IEEE 1394 2 Port Hi-Speed Card Bus PCMCIA for PC or Mac. The transfer rate are 400Mbit/sec, and very useful for DV, MO, HDD?etc, and some other devices with 1394 interface.
Specifications:
PCMCIA Type II
Fully supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 Standard for high-performance Serial Bus and the P13
Supports up to 63 devices that can be run simultaneously on a system
Supports Windows 98SE,Windows ME,Windows 2000,Windows XP
l Supports MAC OS 8.6 , 9.1
I connected an external firewire casing with a 48x LITEON CD-R... all to my laptop DELL LATITUDE C600
The card wont work.. has a big exclamation mark saying that the device is not availble.... tried again few hours later, the device is recognized but now there is memory conflict everywhere... IM SO MAD
SHould i just get myself a expensive name brand pcmcia card?? like adaptec or soemthing... sigh.. just was trying to save money... help!
here is my laptop cardbus spec:
CardBus controller Texas Instruments PCI 1420 CardBus controller
PC Card connectors two Type II cards in any combination;
one Type III card used only in the lower connector
The lower connector supports zoomed video (ZV) cards on computers running the Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Windows 98 operating system. The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system does not support ZV.
Cards supported 3.3-V and 5-V
Type II and Type III PC Cards (including memory cards)
ATA cards that emulate IDE hard-disk drives
I/O cards such as modems, LAN cards, wireless LAN cards, and SCSI cards
PC Card connector size 68 pins
Data width (maximum):
PCMCIA
16 bits
CardBus
32 bits
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