Hi,
I'm having trouble getting FW800 to work on Windows and Linux(Mandriva 2010). I bought a PCI FW800 card with a TI, and it plugs into my PCI slot, however it has a row of extra connectors dangling. I'm not sure if it's a 64bit PCI card or PCI-X, but Windows XP/7 and Mandrivawere all able to detect it(device manager and lspci both use the default OHCI drivers). However, under Windows XP/7, only the FW400 connector works with a FW800 external HDD. While the FW800 provides power to my HDD, Windows wasn't able to detect it.
Under Mandriva, things are worse. It couldn't detect regardless of whether I'm using FW400 or FW800.
There's a floppy power connector on the card too, I'm not sure if that needs to be connected either. Seems to be the same whether I connect power to it or not...
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
I'm having trouble getting FW800 to work on Windows and Linux(Mandriva 2010). I bought a PCI FW800 card with a TI, and it plugs into my PCI slot, however it has a row of extra connectors dangling. I'm not sure if it's a 64bit PCI card or PCI-X, but Windows XP/7 and Mandrivawere all able to detect it(device manager and lspci both use the default OHCI drivers). However, under Windows XP/7, only the FW400 connector works with a FW800 external HDD. While the FW800 provides power to my HDD, Windows wasn't able to detect it.
Under Mandriva, things are worse. It couldn't detect regardless of whether I'm using FW400 or FW800.
There's a floppy power connector on the card too, I'm not sure if that needs to be connected either. Seems to be the same whether I connect power to it or not...
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
