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    Acer 5024 Firewire

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by smij, Dec 6, 2005.

  1. smij

    smij Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone with the 5024 had any trouble with the Firewire port?

    I ask because my brother very kindly bought me a hard drive caddy for my birthday with both USB and Firewire connections (Akasa Integral). USB works fine but takes a while to copy stuff across.

    When I connect it via Firewire the laptop recognises it for a short period of time, allowing me to start copying files but about half way through, every time, I get an error saying the device is not ready and the drive dissapears from My Computer

    All drivers are up to date, everything is connected properly.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

    Jim
     
    smij, Dec 6, 2005
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  2. potepuh

    potepuh Newbie

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    got 5024, tried firewire once&didn't work.
    will try on another computer and post results
     
    potepuh, Jan 9, 2006
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  3. Jasmine Kuo

    Jasmine Kuo Newbie

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    You mentioned that the hard drive caddy could connect by both USB and Firewire interface. How about trying it by USB interface? :confused:
     
    Jasmine Kuo, Jan 11, 2006
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  4. potepuh

    potepuh Newbie

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    what i did:

    have disk caddy - combo usb&firewire.

    caddy with supplied 6pin -> 6pin cable works on normal computer.videocamera with 6pin -> 4pin cable works on the computer. BUT the 6pin->4pin cable with caddy on notebook doesn't work. so either the cable is videocamera only,or firewire on 5024 doesn't work. anyone with a working 5024 firewire??
     
    potepuh, Jan 14, 2006
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  5. REDFROG

    REDFROG Notebook Evangelist

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    i have a hd caddy and use the firewire port and it works fine.
     
    REDFROG, Jan 14, 2006
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  6. REDFROG

    REDFROG Notebook Evangelist

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    does any one know if there are firewire drivers that you need for windows profesional 64 because when i plug my external hd into the laptop, in windows 64 it is not seen. or could it be that my caddie dosnt support windoes 64?
    when i first plugged it into windows xp home windows installed it and it worked fine. dont realy know what to do now.

    also were can you get drivers for the wireless module because when you download them from the acer site and extract them with win rar there isnt a setup/install folder in the file!
     
    REDFROG, Jan 15, 2006
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  7. potepuh

    potepuh Newbie

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    @redfrog
    you got 4pin-6pin FW cable with the caddy or bought separate one? just curious
    don't know about win64,will install it today or tomorrow and if i will remember will post here. but the problem with the caddy is probably because of drivers,a caddy is a caddy,doesn't matter what OS you use.
     
    potepuh, Feb 14, 2006
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  8. REDFROG

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    i had to buy a seperate one its made by belkin.
     
    REDFROG, Feb 14, 2006
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