Firewire card reader?

External Since: Nov 11, 2005 Posts: 1

I just bought a Lexar Firewire Compactflash Reader--I have a 4pin connection
on my laptop, so had to get a 6-pin/4pin cable...it doesn't work. Can anyone
tell me why? and if it is possible to get it to work? I am a photographer,
and wanted to use it to dump images off my new 1gb compactflash cards faster
than through my pc card adapter...

External Since: Feb 20, 2004 Posts: 344

it needs all the wires, 4 won't do. get a PCMCIA USB card
to add a full USB port.

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"mikkic" <mikkic.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|I just bought a Lexar Firewire Compactflash Reader--I have
a 4pin connection
| on my laptop, so had to get a 6-pin/4pin cable...it
doesn't work. Can anyone
| tell me why? and if it is possible to get it to work? I am
a photographer,
| and wanted to use it to dump images off my new 1gb
compactflash cards faster
| than through my pc card adapter...