Adapter card for firewire ports

iMovie recognizes my camera but will not download. Genius Bar succeeded using an adapter card with firewire ports with assumption that port on computer was bad.
I am searching Apple Store and cannot find this adapter card. What would it be called?
thanks for help

If you mean the online Apple Store, it doesn't currently carry any adapter cards of that type. They are available from many other online vendors. But why not buy one exactly like the one the Genius used, at the store where s/he used it?

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Do you want to confirm that the FireWire bus/port is operating correctly and that it's not the cause of the external DVD drive's failure? Obviously, another FireWire device would provide the answer, since you're not going to be able to check the FireWire controller chip on the motherboard.

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Hi, Josh. Does Apple System Profiler detect the card? If not, check to make sure your PCMCIA card cage's connection to the logic board hasn't worked loose, as they sometimes do. Release the keyboard (instructions are in your owner's manual) and flip it gently back onto the wrist rest. Look for a brown tab under the normal position of the D and X keys. That's the card cage's connector to the logic board. Press it down firmly; if it moves or clicks at all, it was loose and probably not making good contact. Test again after returning the keyboard to its place.
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Hi everyone,
I am new to this site, and new to laptops. I just bought a used IBM LENOVO T42 1,7GHZ 512MB 30 GB HD with XP PRO. I am confussed about the WiFi issue, as it seems like two cards are required (internal / external) to get wireless. I have been searching the internet trying to find out what external and/or internal card I need to buy, but have become frustrated because I don't understand the lingo.
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IT ALSO COMES WITH WIRELESS CAPABILITY TO CONNECT TO ANY WIFI NETWORK OR HOTSPOT AND CONNECT TO THE INTERNET BY ADDING AN ADAPTER CARD.
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Scott,
it's your choice if you want to install an internal or external card:
1. Internal card: This is located inside the covers so to install it you have to open up the Thinkpad. Here is the T40/41/42 Hardware Maintenance Manual that shows you how to install what is there called the Mini PCI adapter. Most T42s shipped with this card factory installed but probably your model didn't. As you can see from the manual there were several cards that the T42 could have shipped with, my T42 came with the Intel 2200BG card. The big advantage with this approach is you can use an internal antenna in the cover but you might have to install that too if your model shipped from factory without wireless. The FRU (spare part) number for the antenna assemblies (different for 14" and 15" display models) is also shown in the hardware manual and they can be ordered online from IBM/Lenovo and typically ship overnight. (I would wait and order the antenna assembly until you have opened the Thinkpad, it might be there also for models that shipped from factory without wireless card.)
2. External card: This you put in one of the PC card slots on the left side of the laptop. The disadvantage is it will stick out of the laptop and carries a small external antenna so you will always have to take it out whenever you pack up your laptop. The antenna might not have quite as good reception as the internal antennna.
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Serial Connector adapter / cable for WAN port on WRT350N and others - WRT150N WRT310N WRT610N

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Hi,
You need a PCIe - Firewire card, something simila to one of the following cards:
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Suggestions for Firewire port allocation for DAW

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I'm wondering if I've got my rig set up the way it should be. Specifically I'm talking about how / where is the best way to hook up my Apogee Ensemble & external FW drive. My understanding is that my machine (PPC G5 Dual 2.3) has one FW 800 port on the front and two FW400 ports on the rear (one with a different type of connection than the other). Should I put both the Apogee and my external HD (that I use with Logic projects) on the 800 port? Should one go on the 400 in the rear? What would be the best set up?
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You have your 400/800 mixed up...
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I am wondering if anyone has the lowdown on using 3rd party SATA raid cards to support the INTERNAL hard drives on the Mac Pro series?
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can anyone give feedback to hardware SATA cards to power external drive bays with support for Disk Utility (to allow RAID1 pairings of internal drives to external snapshot-backup drives)?
There are a large number of external controllers that work with Disk Utility. Here are some of my favorites.
1. FirmTek SeriTek/2SE2-E and the SeriTek/5PM
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata5pm2se2.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/5pm/
2. Sonnet Tempo E4P
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/sonnet/mac-pro/
3. DAT Optic eSATA_PCIe8
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GT70 - Need Help with "downgrade" adapter card!

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For a tiny little adapter card I don't want to send in this gigantic and very heavy unit, because it would cost around a $100- with express delivery and insured. Once I did that and then it took about 6 weeks to get it back in worse condition than it was before! No thanks, I just want a simple adapter card that probably cost around $10-$15, which I can install in 60 seconds and/or a replacement for the SSD if possible, since it is well within the warranty period. If they honor it good, if not, I won't be surprised at all. Unfortunately I've had terrible experiences with this company in the past, but I don't want to get into that. That's not why I'm here.
Yes, you are right, the 2 msata Super-Raid are very fast and very enjoyable, however, as it is obvious by now, they have a very short life-span. I've never, ever had any of my laptops' HD to fail on me before, and I've had quite a few over the years, Acer, Toshiba, then a bunch of Sonys, so I'm still betting on the "good old" regular 7200 RPM disks that run for ever rather than this SSD thing that craps out on me in 10 months.
And if the Read/Write speed is slower, well, as long as they work, I don't care.
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I've already checked the prices of mSata chips, but they are pretty expensive. A 128GB SSD costs $120 and a regular 750GB 7200rpm HD about $80, so I would choose the regular, reliable and much larger HD over this SSD thing if I had to make a choice.
Meanwhile I'm still searching all accessory and parts sellers' websites for this particular adapter, but so far nothing! :(

Is anyone having a problem connecting 400 firewire thru an adapter for the 800 firewire port on a Macbook Pro 2011? It does a kernel panic every time I connect it. Is there a "proper way" to connect it?

Is anyone having a problem connecting 400 firewire thru an adapter for the 800 firewire port on a Macbook Pro 2011? It does a kernel panic every time I connect it. Is there a "proper way" to connect it? Just in case it makes a difference I am trying to hook up an Avid Mbox Pro for Pro tools.

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Hi. I have a Macbook Pro Model 5,5 with one 800 firewire port. I need to create two firewire 800 ports but only have an SD card slot (this is for video interface with 2 cameras). Is this possible or do I have to have an express card slot in order to do

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Be careful to pick a card that does not require a separate power connection for 12V. I had gotten the Rosewill card that needs that and it would not work without getting some adapter cables to let me connect a spare hard drive power connector to the old style molex connector on the Rosewill card. Rather than do that, I just got a different 1394 card that was able to pull 12V from the PCI bus cardslot. The adapter cards are cheap. I also have a thread down below where I routed the 1394 connection to my front panel for a very clean and professional looking installation. That is probably more work than necessary, but my machine was new and I wasn't ready to live with plugging it in from the back.
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What you need is a PCE Express x1 1394 firewire adapter card to install in one of the PCI Express x1 slots in you desktop PC.
Here are examples at NewEgg.com
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