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Homemade ide to firewire card?
I want to take the ide ribbon cable that connects to my motherboard, and
connect the other end to a controller card that will convert it to an open firewire port. That way, I can plug in any firewire hard drive or cd drive. This is not for a computer - it's for a standalone digital music recorder that only supports ide and not firewire. Basically I need a controller card that does the opposite of what firewire controller cards do - Does this exist? |
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I want to take the ide ribbon cable that connects to my motherboard, and
connect the other end to a controller card that will convert it to an open firewire port. That way, I can plug in any firewire hard drive or cd drive. This is not for a computer - it's for a standalone digital music recorder that only supports ide and not firewire. Basically I need a controller card that does the opposite of what firewire controller cards do - Does this exist? What if you bought a firewire-capable enclosure such as this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...146-186&depa=0 Then, just rip the thing apart and use the interface in your music recorder. It may be ugly but it should do the trick. |
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I have not heard of such a device being available.
-- DaveW "Joe" wrote in message ... I want to take the ide ribbon cable that connects to my motherboard, and connect the other end to a controller card that will convert it to an open firewire port. That way, I can plug in any firewire hard drive or cd drive. This is not for a computer - it's for a standalone digital music recorder that only supports ide and not firewire. Basically I need a controller card that does the opposite of what firewire controller cards do - Does this exist? |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:23:19 GMT, "Joe" wrote:
I want to take the ide ribbon cable that connects to my motherboard, and connect the other end to a controller card that will convert it to an open firewire port. That way, I can plug in any firewire hard drive or cd drive. This is not for a computer - it's for a standalone digital music recorder that only supports ide and not firewire. Basically I need a controller card that does the opposite of what firewire controller cards do - Does this exist? No such thing and an IDE port cannot be wired to a firewire card by a cable, they are not logically compatible even if you soldered wires to the card edge. The closest you're likely to get is to use a removeable HDD enclosure., so you can swap drives that way. Use of a round, twisted pair 80-conductor cable (ATA66/100/133) may allow longer cable, though you'd possibly still need a power supply plug extension too. |
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Joe wrote:
I want to take the ide ribbon cable that connects to my motherboard, and connect the other end to a controller card that will convert it to an open firewire port. That way, I can plug in any firewire hard drive or cd drive. This is not for a computer - it's for a standalone digital music recorder that only supports ide and not firewire. Basically I need a controller card that does the opposite of what firewire controller cards do - Does this exist? What is the purpose, besides 'using a firewire drive' I mean, and why does only a firewire drive satisfy it? For example, I see a SATA to IDE interface. Why would a SATA drive be not as good? Or, for that matter, an IDE drive that goes natively on the interface it's got. |
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