magee said:
Having just found out where my daughter was storing her bubblegum I have now cleaned out my firewire port!
Does anyone know if data is transfered by the male bit within the socket or does it use the outer wall as well? Make sense?
Anyway, thanks in advance............
IEEE 1394 Firewire / ilink
Mating face of 6 pin male FireWire
PIN# SIGNAL PIN# SIGNAL
1 POWER 4 TPB+
2 GND 5 TPA-
3 TPB- 6 TPA+
Mating face of 4 pin male FireWire
PIN# SIGNAL PIN# SIGNAL
1 TPB- 3 TPA-
2 TPB+ 4 TPA+
TPA / TPB are transfer protocol lines
In the picture 4 Pin on right 6 Pin on left
Between PC and AV devices like video cameras
High speed digital to digital transfer
Speed: 100/200/400 Mbits/sec (new standard 1394B will reach 3200 Mbit/sec)
Very similar in concept to USB, but a lot faster
Plug n Play
Hot plug: no need to re-start computer when attaching new peripheral
Automatic configuration: no device IDs or terminators
PC ->¨ Peripheral 1 ->¨ Peripheral 2 ...---> ¨ Peripheral 63
There are 2 types:
6-pin and 4-pin
In general, 6-pin is used by PC/Network, 4-pin by small portable devices
The 6-pin connector is approximately twice as big as 4-pin connector
6-pin connector is long rectangle with one side rounded
4-pin connector is more or less a rectangle
