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any different firewire driver for ricoh?

post #1 of 3
11/26/05 at 10:23pm
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Hi, as many of you know, the ricoh firewire controller, used in dell notebooks, is incompatible with most prolific firewire chipsets for harddrive enclosures. Unfortunately, I have an old prolific which cannot be flashed by the user to a newer firmware, and this would be the only feasible workaround. I could use the 128k patch but that just resulted in firewire transfers being very slow. I heard there's another driver I could use in place of the stock driver as installed by windows. I know this is only a workaround and I'd be very wary of plugging in my enclosure to another machine for fear of corrupting data, but since it's connected to my dell laptop 99.9% of the time, it's better than having to use usb.
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post #2 of 3
11/27/05 at 1:01am
I personally feel safer with the USB2 connection since the firewire connection isnt powered I have the fear or someone tripping over a wire and potentially killing my harddrive. As far as the driver thing
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post #3 of 3
11/27/05 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
I personally feel safer with the USB2 connection since the firewire connection isnt powered I have the fear or someone tripping over a wire and potentially killing my harddrive. As far as the driver thing
hmm my drive is externally powered though, not one of the 2.5" ones so i dont know how much a usb would save me. as far as usb too, i have way too many devices on usb and everything gets flaky when i transfer files down usb as well.
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