Adaptec Fireconnect for Notebooks 1430V. The Adaptec Fireconnect For Notebooks

List Price: $60.00

Features:

• Adaptec AFW-1430A 3-Port FireWire PCMCIA Card General Features: CardBus interface
• Three (3)IEEE 1394 FireWire ports Regulatory Approvals: FCC CE C-Tick VCCI

Customer Reviews:

Great card - Awesome value [Posted on 2007-12-26]
Card does exactly what it's supposed to. Could download movie to my laptop from my video camera. At a smidge over $10 you can't beat the price. Definitely recommended for those needing a firewire connection to their laptop.

Incomplete [Posted on 2008-03-01]
Works fine; however, the package says that there is a cable included. There is NO cable. :(

Works as expected. [Posted on 2008-04-12]
The card does everything I expected of it. I'm able to transfer my movies from the camcorder to the computer. I'd recommend it.

Works very well, a bit slow though [Posted on 2008-04-25]
The product works very well with my Lenovo T60. Its simple plug and play. Windows XP recognized it as soon as I plugged it in and it was ready to go in 2 mins. No additional installation was required. My only peev is that the transfer is very slow. It took a long time to transfer a 120 min DV tape.

Works, but has some limitations [Posted on 2008-07-08]
One of the reasons I bought this card, apart from capturing DV from my camcorder, was to use it with the Canopus 77010150100 ADVC110 Converter. The Adaptec card has a 6 pin socket (unlike the 4 pin one on laptops which have firewire port). This gave me the impression that it can supply power to the Canopus converter.

However it does not. The canopus doesn't light up and requires an external power supply if used with this adapter. The same converter works well with the 6 pin ports on desktops.

Camcorders work as they have their own power supply. I used it with my Panasonic GS330 and it worked well.

For those looking for Linux support, this product works with my Ubunutu Hardy laptop. In fact, I use this exclusively on Linux. It doesn't work out of the box though. After inserting it to the PCMCIA socket, you need to run "sudo modprobe raw1394" to load the kernel module. Make sure you are in the group "disk" before firing up the software to import the video.

I use Kino for importing DV, and Kdenlive for editing the video. Works well.

And yes, a cable was supplied with the card.

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