Firewire Solution?

[Bubblegum Bandit]

Ok, I did something kinda stupid and I'm hoping there is a way around it. I bought a PCI firewire hub that has an internal 6-pin firewire port. I also bought a little 3.5" bay USB/Firewire hub. But, it seems the front bay hub is meant to be connected to individual pinned connector like you find on a motherboard with built-in firewire host controller. How am I gonna hook these two together? Anybody have any ideas? I've been searching website after website to see if I could find an adapter that would work and haven't been able too.

 

If I need to, I can post some pictures of the two adapters....like I said, the PCI card has a standard 6-pin femail firewire port and the front bay has a flat 6-pin male adapter.

 

Please Help!!!!

[auggybendoggy]

thats a drag bandit.

 

That happened with me with a usb hub (bay). I'll see if I can give a look around for an adapter also.

 

I think it's the only way apart of splicing like your suggesting.

[auggybendoggy]

also usually the mb has the jumpers for the extra usb these days.

 

is your mb old? if not you should have all the jumpes on the mb

[Bubblegum Bandit]

It has pins for two front usb2.0 ports, but none for the firewire ports.

 

I guess I should have paid more attention to the products I bought...

I have a PCI firewire hub to put in, but I want to have a front port so that I can easily hook up my camcorder for capturing without pulling my box out and connecting.

[jane]

ah the dreams of having an all firewire computer are smashed. darn it! no ideas here bud. um. try converting to a mac....they use lots of firewire. did you check any mac specific sites? they might have some....but then again, i dont know any mac specific sites either. sorry bud.