[Ti] Powered Firewire Card?

[b]

Joseph W. Chance paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>On Sep 26, 2004, at 12:41 PM, shane hartley wrote:
>
>>Ok the firewire port on my tibook 500 died. And I need to get some type of
>>alternative. I have a external cd burner and harddrive that require the
>>'bus' power also. I've looked into Firewire PCMCIA Cards but I need one that
>>will also provide power to the external drives,etc. I found a card by Orange
>>Micro http://www.orangemicro.com/fwcardbus.html that has an optional power
>>cord. Anyone know if this is a good card? Is there another option? Is there
>>another card that is better

I use the same card, with the external power, all the time. It's great.

~flipper