No, that three minute download was performed through a Belkin firewire card mounted in one of the PCS slots on my G4 Mac. I'm sure it's the earlier firewire version, since I've had the card for a couple of years. (The Mac has two ports as well, but they're both running hard drives.) I believe the older version is called firewire 400. With USB 1, my downloads were around 20 minutes. I never tried USB 2, because the Mac wasn't equipped with it, and I've heard that people have problems with third party cards. But Microtech claims their firewire reader is considerably faster than any USB 2 device, even with firewire 400. I believe them.
Paul
On Sep 11, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Paul,
Are you using the new Firewire 800?
Shel
[Original Message] From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I bought a Microtech Firewire CameraMate card reader. It downloads my one gig lexar 40X card in about three minutes. I'm impressed. It was only about fifty bucks at a local camera store, probably less on the internet. Worth every penny.
