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Sabrent SBT-VT6306 3 + 1 Ports Firewire IEEE1394 PCI Controller Card
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(3.5 out of 5)
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Good product, good value. But Microsoft falls short again
(5 out of 5) by A. Hewitt on May 10, 2009 (Tucson, Arizona)I came within a millimeter of returning this card but, remembering that PC problems are typically due to software or connectors, not circuit cards, I googled for a solution and the first thing I tried made it work.
I have a Compaq Evo D510 CMT PC, about five years old, running XP SP3. If you have an earlier service pack, you will need to download some hot fixes and perhaps edit the registry. It's easier to install SP3 instead. I don't know if this fix is needed for Windows Vista.
All I had to do to make this adapter work was go to Settings > Network connections, right click on the 1394 network adapter and disable it. Now the computer talks just fine with my Seagate hard drive.
The problem has nothing to do with the hardware. It's a bug in Windows XP support of peer-to-peer networking with Firewire, a neat feature that most people don't use allowing two computers talk to each other faster than Ethernet.
I have a Compaq Evo D510 CMT PC, about five years old, running XP SP3. If you have an earlier service pack, you will need to download some hot fixes and perhaps edit the registry. It's easier to install SP3 instead. I don't know if this fix is needed for Windows Vista.
All I had to do to make this adapter work was go to Settings > Network connections, right click on the 1394 network adapter and disable it. Now the computer talks just fine with my Seagate hard drive.
The problem has nothing to do with the hardware. It's a bug in Windows XP support of peer-to-peer networking with Firewire, a neat feature that most people don't use allowing two computers talk to each other faster than Ethernet.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
No Driver
(1 out of 5) by David de Hilster on Feb 22, 2008 (Long Beach, CA USA)Don't buy this. There is no driver for it. Not even on the Sabrent website. Hard to use without a driver. Threw away my money.
Works perfect, instantly.
(5 out of 5) by Brian M. Blackwood on Nov 16, 2009 (Norman, OK USA)Got this for my PreSonus Firepod. Shipped super fast, and works like a charm! Great price too.
Seems to work, and it's cheap
(3 out of 5) by Evan Olson on Sep 19, 2009 (San Pedro, CA United States)I stuck it in the machine, turned it on, and it worked.
The plug and play worked fine in Windows XP Pro. That's a good thing since the driver disk doesn't seem to have any English language support. There seems to be additional software on the disk that might be worth installing, but again it's all in a character set I don't have installed so I can't tell.
I have only tried capture from a video device (which works). I have not tried external disk drives.
The plug and play worked fine in Windows XP Pro. That's a good thing since the driver disk doesn't seem to have any English language support. There seems to be additional software on the disk that might be worth installing, but again it's all in a character set I don't have installed so I can't tell.
I have only tried capture from a video device (which works). I have not tried external disk drives.
No drivers
(1 out of 5) by Kyle Bultman on Nov 4, 2008 (Grand Rapids, MI USA)This product appeared to be plug and play like it claimed. My firewire hard drives showed up right away and I could browse through the contents, however, any time I copy data through this pci card, my brand new Dell shuts off instantly and without warning. The manufacturer website does NOT offer a driver for this product, so I am throwing it away and buying a belkin or dynex.
I have done trouble shooting to conclude it definately is the pci card that is causing the crashes, not any other part of my set up.
I have done trouble shooting to conclude it definately is the pci card that is causing the crashes, not any other part of my set up.