I just purchased an m600 Inspiron today, and am also looking to get a Firewire PC Card for it. So I will second the request for recommendations. I found a couple at newegg.com, but I'd like to get some feedback before I pull the trigger.
I bought a DVD-R system that comes with a IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Host Adapter Card that I am supposed to install in my "tower". Obviously, I don't have a tower but a laptop Insiron 2650.
So I'm not prepared to buy a new computer. Does anyone know any way around this? Would buying a Firewire PCMCIA card work? And if so, does anyone have any recommendations as to which one to buy?
The 2650 has an O2Micro Cardbus Problem and there is a patch for this.
However The patch does not allow the cardbus to survive hybernation so your laptop will go to sleep and wake up stupid and or crash.
Not long after purchasing my Dell Inspiron 2650 in July of 2002, Scott purchased a USB2Connect PCMCIA card from Adaptec to connect a USB 2.0 external hard drive and CD-RW Soon after installing, he realized that he could not write through this adapter to any devices; only read. Attempts to write would generate an error causing Windows XP to disconnect the device. Additionally, attempts to burn a CD failed, however without error in most cases (burn process stalled). After days of reinstalling software, patch updates, changing OS's, and finally reinstalling Windows XP w/ Service Pack One he still had the same problem.
It had become apparent that there was a hardware problem. However, after thoroughly testing the hardware to verify it was functioning, He concluded the problem had to be an incompatibility between the O2Micro cardbus controller and industry standard PCMCIA cardbus adapter cards (tested several different USB 2.0 adapters & a SCSI adapter). This was fine however he was unable to get Dell to admit to the incompatibility let alone fix it! After going through a visious cirle of "call the other vendor...their responsible for this problem" with tech support at Dell, TDK and Adaptec Scott finally went to what He thought was the source of the problem and sent an e-mail to customer service at O2Micro. Fortunately they responded with an e-mail stating they had already identified a problem and were working on it. It took five months, the original engineer Scott spoke with finally delivered a patch that fixed this problem. -
I did as directed and reinstalled the BIO from the Dell Link provided from Dell Tech Support. I need to use my DVD Camcorder and I do connect using a IEEE 1394 Firewall. My system ask for a device driver? Also, the system does not recognize my camcorder.
Any Ideas please?
Within the System Device Manager it list the following IEEE 1394 and or 1394 Devices?
-- 1394 Debugger Device
-- 61883 Device Class
-- AVC Device Class
-- Multifunction Adapters
-- Non Plug Play Drivers
-- Medium Changes
-- 1394 Ethernet Controller
-- IEEE 1394 SCSI Printers
-- IEEE 1394 Host Controllers
-- IEEE Host Controllers
-- IEEE Network Enumerator
-- SBP2 IEEE 1393 Device
-- Tape Driver Controller
-- Tape Drives
-- Storage Volume Shadow Copies
-- Storage Volume
Now, what do you suggest for they all ask for drivers in which I don't have nor do I know what the above devices, etc., are? Please advise.
mrbowlman
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December 2nd, 2003 02:00
I just purchased an m600 Inspiron today, and am also looking to get a Firewire PC Card for it. So I will second the request for recommendations. I found a couple at newegg.com, but I'd like to get some feedback before I pull the trigger.
speedstep
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December 3rd, 2003 15:00
See:
http://home.insightbb.com/~scottlandon/
The 2650 has an O2Micro Cardbus Problem and there is a patch for this.
However The patch does not allow the cardbus to survive hybernation so your laptop will go to sleep and wake up stupid and or crash.
Not long after purchasing my Dell Inspiron 2650 in July of 2002, Scott purchased a USB2Connect PCMCIA card from Adaptec to connect a USB 2.0 external hard drive and CD-RW Soon after installing, he realized that he could not write through this adapter to any devices; only read. Attempts to write would generate an error causing Windows XP to disconnect the device. Additionally, attempts to burn a CD failed, however without error in most cases (burn process stalled). After days of reinstalling software, patch updates, changing OS's, and finally reinstalling Windows XP w/ Service Pack One he still had the same problem.
It had become apparent that there was a hardware problem. However, after thoroughly testing the hardware to verify it was functioning, He concluded the problem had to be an incompatibility between the O2Micro cardbus controller and industry standard PCMCIA cardbus adapter cards (tested several different USB 2.0 adapters & a SCSI adapter). This was fine however he was unable to get Dell to admit to the incompatibility let alone fix it! After going through a visious cirle of "call the other vendor...their responsible for this problem" with tech support at Dell, TDK and Adaptec Scott finally went to what He thought was the source of the problem and sent an e-mail to customer service at O2Micro. Fortunately they responded with an e-mail stating they had already identified a problem and were working on it. It took five months, the original engineer Scott spoke with finally delivered a patch that fixed this problem. -
Jkdassoc
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May 17th, 2004 21:00