2009-03-03 10:36:00
$DEITY! All I'm trying to do is to hook up my Lacie Firewire speakers to my Powermac. The Lacie's come with a non-detachable 1m FW cable, while my Mac is about 3m away.
This should of course be easily fixable with an extension cord or a hub. Right? Were it not that this is not USB, which is the VHS to Firewire's Betamax and thus there is next to nearly nothing usable out there for Firewire. Oh sure, Belkin has a USB/FW hub, but it rings in around 40 euros. And there's -one- extension cord available in the Netherlands, but it's a whopping 27 euros o_O
I'll go trawl eBay/Marktplaats now... See what I can come up with on the secondhand market. *sigh*
EDIT: Thank $DEITY for Kleinspul.nl who have a 6P F-F adapter which will let me hook up two cables. At about five bob apiece, that's pretty good...
kilala.nl tags: other tech, annoying, apple,
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Posted by Thomas
Yeah I'm set, thanks...
This little adapter block will allow me to connect a normal FW400 cable to the LaCie's builtin cable. It's better than nothing and hopefully the connection won't be flaky. But hey, at about four to five euros apiece it's not that bad.
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2009-03-03 23:06:00
Posted by Edmond
Okay, that means you are set with this? If not, let me know. In Gorinchem there is a Turkish computer shop that has a nice stash of cables anybody hardly ever buys. But the guy has it. I bought a five meter(!) FW800 cable to connect my IOmega 1TB drive to my iMac and a 5 meter HDMI cable with a HDMI 'gender-bender' for it. It's an asshole, but he haz it...