The larger 6 pin firewire connectors have 12v power. But it comes from the same power supply everything else does. Not like they build a lot of extra wiggle room into those notebook power supplies. And they aren't easy to replace.
We have plenty of both USB2 and 1394 drives. But all of them come with their own power plugs. I suppose though that a desktop could power an external 2.5" drive from internal power. If you didn't have a lot of other junk connected. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:56 PM, rleesimon<[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting ...would you elaborate please? > > And further ...in a pinch, can the firewire provide power? > > Even the mini-firewire on my machine (which I have never used ever)? > > Tia! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony B [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: firewire > > Don't try to power an external drive with your laptop's power supply. > Asking for trouble. Use a power brick. > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, rleesimon<[email protected]> wrote: >> My thinkpad x31 winxpprosp3 laptop has a 4pin firewire port .is there > some >> way, with an adapter, I can use it as the 2nd port required for some >> external hdd's to get power? They come with a split usb dongle, 1st is > for >> data, the 2nd is for power and I thought I could preserve the 2nd usb port >> for something else and get the power off the firewire port. also, how to >> figure out if it's a firewire 400 or 800 .iomega makes ext hdds with both >> types of connection, but will this MINI firewire do any of that? .tia! > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
