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USB/FireWire Converter?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by TraJ, May 20, 2003.

  1. TraJ

    TraJ Member

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    Is there now or will there ever be (to the best of your knowledge) a USB/FireWire converter? I'm talking about a hub of some kind that will allow you to connect your FireWire peripheral to a computer's USB connection, or a peripheral that uses USB to a computer's FireWire connection. Is such even possible?
     
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  3. TraJ

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    If someone has a computer with USB 1.1 connections (and no room to expand) and a USB 2.0 device, it seems to me that they would benefit from the ability to convert the USB 2.0 to FireWire. If someone has no FireWire connection (and no room to expand), then they would benefit from converting FireWire to USB. That's what I was thinking about.

    Unless I overlooked something, that hub won't convert from one to the other. If you have a USB connection, it will give you more USB connections. If you have a FireWire connection, you get more FireWire connections.
     
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  4. ChenZhen

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    Traj, I've never heard of such thing.

    Instead of getting a converter, why not get a PCI Card with both USB2 and Firewire?

    <a href='http://www.keyspan.com/products/combo/u2fpci/' target=newwin>http://www.keyspan.com/products/combo/u2fpci/</a>
     
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  5. PhiSlammaJamma

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    He's right tho'. I shouldn't have to rip out my chip and replace it. Most people are afraid to do that. A converter would solve a lot of people's problems. The only reason i can think they have not created one is because firewire will become standard or something.
     
    #5 PhiSlammaJamma, May 21, 2003
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    I don't think that this is technically possible. Firewire devices do a lot of the control stuff for comms themselves. This is how you can plug certain firewire devices into each other (DV cameras for example).

    USB is cheaper because it requires the computer to do computational work. A USB device is not sufficiently "intelligent" to participate on a Firewire bus. The other way round (Firewire on a USB 2.0 bus), I don't know. Is USB 2 able to cope with the sustained throughput that Firewire can?
     
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