[Ti] FireWire Ports

Dave Friesen davefriesen at mac.com
Thu May 15 21:52:51 PDT 2003


Until one accidentally tries to put the 6 pin end in backwards, oops, all of
a sudden, power where data should be...

On 5/15/03 6:24 PM, "XXL" <xxl at mac.com> wrote:

>> Regardless of what "techniques" people suggest the only way to prevent this
>> from happening is to use the FW Cable from FWDepot. Somehow, the additional
>> voltage is reaching the FW port. Unless you know the most intricate details
>> of
>> your particular device you won't know how.
> 
> 
> Which reminds me that the Sony implementation of FireWire has no power.  So
> whatever was destroying there are issues other than power shorts that can
> tank a port.
> -Joel
> 
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