We've received scattered reports of problems with iMac G5 FireWire ports -- specifically situations where one or more FireWire devices seemingly does not draw enough power from the host machine, or ...

The 1394 Trade Association is touting the success of FireWire ports , saying that the technology has reached the 2 billion ports mark. But that puts it far behind its competitor, USB. Don Reisinger ...

The good news: most of Apple’s professional-level computers — the Power Mac G5 and the aluminum PowerBook G4 product lines — feature built-in FireWire 800 ports. The bad news: most people I know don’t ...

I had the FireWire ports on the MDD 1GHzDP at work stop recognizing when devices were plugged in, although the ports would still supply power. A trip to the motherboard re-set switch made everything ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

FirewireDirect.com has introduces their FireWire 800 1394b PCI Host Adapter Card. As the name implies, it’s a new expansion card with FireWire 800 on board. It features a single FireWire 400 port, too ...

Here's basically the problem: I have a firewire audio interface connected to a Snow Leopard mac mini using a 5 meters firewire cable which is the maximum length allowed by the fw specification, and ...

The Thunder Pro A/V FireWire 400 hard drive comes in an anodized-aluminum enclosure and has data-transfer rates as fast as 36 Mbps (read) and 34 Mbps (write). The hard drive features EX port, an ...

While Apple Computer was happy to take home an Emmy for its FireWire technology, the company must be even more pleased that the high-speed connection is moving closer to a bigger goal--becoming ...

A new combination USB 2.0/FireWire hub from D-Link with four USB 2.0 ports and three FireWire ports. It’s not clear from the press release where on the PC the DFB-H7 hub connects to, but we’re ...

The Niestat brothers were wrong. The iPod's dirty secret is not the iPod's irreplaceable battery, but flaky FireWire ports in early models. Contrary to the assertions of brothers Casey and Van Niestat ...

Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...