FireWire (IEEE 1394)

I just purchaced an Apple iPod. It has a very nice high speed 1394 connection. The problem is not all the computers I use (work, various friends, etc.) have a 1394 card. I am unable to install the required card in all of them. In cases like these a 1394 adaptor for USB would be nice.

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Thank you for your interest. I am not progressing work on this opencore, I am merely holding it until someone else decides to step up. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Please note that commercial usb to firewire adapters already exist and are usually under $10. I am closing this bug as USB is not a focus of this project.

Bahnsen, Kris said: "Please note that commercial usb to firewire adapters already exist and are usually under $10."

Where exactly? I've never seen nor heard of such a thing. Searching for such a device has proven fruitless.

It depends on what you want to do with it. Inherently, the two protocols are pretty much completely incompatible. However, there are some situations (I don't know exactly what) where a converter will work, and usually, they are pretty cheap. Some quick googling revealed a few adapters that seemed to be functional for mass storage but not for streaming, which is one of the advantages that firewire has over USB.