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Sabrent SBT-VT6306 3 + 1 Ports Firewire IEEE1394 PCI Controller Card
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + ShareWorks 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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Does not work
(1 out of 5) by D. Horn on Oct 7, 2009I installed this item in a Vista Home Premium x64. It went in fine, when I booted up it went through installing the new hardware fine. No problems in device manager either. But then when I tried plugging in a video camera it did not work. Nothing came up. I am returning it and buying a different one. It might work on your computer, but not on mine.
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
excellent quality, great price
(5 out of 5) by Bhaisaab Tech Guru on Aug 20, 2009The product does exactly what it advertises. It installed easily and works 100% of the time. Best of all, it is very inexpensive, and as far as I can tell, all items I have purchased from Sabrent are inexpensive and high quality for the price.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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.