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Just for those concerned:
Although having a firewire port that would power up devices would be nice this cannot be done on mobile systems for two reasons: 1- Battery life: having the computer power up an external device on battery life will definitely reduce battery life as it will have to power up the device along with the rest of the components of the system. 2- Firewire device power requirements: current motherboards on mobile systems are only able to provide power for devices that consume little power (for example the USB port: flash drives, floppy drives and such), however, depending on the power requirements for a firewire device it may require more power than the motherboard and AC adapter can supply which may end up burning out the motherboard or the AC adapter.
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Huh? Funny, every mac portable I own has a powered firewire port. |
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actually a six pin FW can power 2.5" HDDs, external notebook optical drives, and there are even a few enclosures which are supposed to power 3.5" drives off the single cable as well.
that's my next purchase consideration. it'd be sweet to have 250GB+ onhand in a 3.5" enclosure. i wouldn't take it w/ me everywhere, but having it FW powered would make portability that much easier when i need it. ![]()
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I don't know of any enclosures that can power a desktop harddrive off of firewire. I don't think Firewire specs carry enough power to do that.
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It dosen't, ditto USB - I think they can both power laptop hard drives, mice and other peripherals.
The main advantage of a Firewire 800 port is that with an adaptor you can plug two firewire 400 devices into it.
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hmm, looks like u need 2 FW cables to make it go...kinda like USB w/ the 2.5" drives...
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/ultragbplus.php then again the review makes it sound as if one will do for basic needs... http://www.maccompanion.com/archives...re/UltraGB.htm
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The firewire SPECS actually spec a large amount of power to power external devices(I believe 15 Watts) so it is more than possible to bus power a HD.
There was a nice thread on SOS some time ago about this that I participated in, Mac only specs their interfaces on their powerbooks to 7 Watts though I believe, they arent fully compliant, but still pwoerful enough for most uses. Seablade |
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Moidock I would suggest you search on the SOS forums for the bus powered firewire device thread. It will answer a lot of your misconceptions.
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Huh...makes me wonder why no one's come up with this before now.
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Info for the 15" PB
yeh,looks like it's split, but i'm curious if one port can deliver the whole power amount if only one device is attached? looks like the iBook is limited to the 7 watts for the one port however...
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If you look farther down the page it says that each port can provide up to 7 watts individually. So I would lean towards no.
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Well that and the thread I mentioned above on the SOS forums involved myself and a few other people that know their way around computers where we were trying to determine why PC manufacturers hadnt learned to put in powered firewire on their laptops, and ways around it. It really is a good read for those interested in audio. But at any rate that exact point was brought up.
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Thx for the suggestion I will read that just in case
. Nevertheless, one part what I wrote was:"However, DEPENDING on the power requirements for a firewire device it may require more power than the motherboard and AC adapter can supply which may end up burning out the motherboard or the AC adapter." Some small devices can be powered up like small 2.5" hard drives, but it may not take devices that require more power than what the PB may output. |
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Actually taking a quick look around via google at a couple of desktop drives, it seems most draw around 10W of power when in use, so the Firewire spec could very well provide that. However as we established the PB doesnt fully comply with the spec. Also it would require internal conversion of power on the part of the HD.
As I said the Firewire spec is designed to provide a fair amount of power, it could power a full desktop HD if people designed them to do it, and if it was fully compliant. ATM it is two big IFs though. Seablade |
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that's my next purchase consideration. it'd be sweet to have 250GB+ onhand in a 3.5" enclosure. i wouldn't take it w/ me everywhere, but having it FW powered would make portability that much easier when i need it. 

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