[Leica] Stupid Computer Question

[John McMaster]

All FW ports are adaptable;, 4 pin is unpowered 400Mb/s, 6 pin is 400Mb/s
and 9 pin 800Mb/s. I have cables/adapters to swap between each ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394

john

-----Original Message-----

Thanks, Ken.  I'm going to try hooking it up to the XP computer that I'm not
using for anything else.  None of my other computers have the right kind of
Firewire port either and would also require an adapter.

Tina

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Tina,
>
> Are you using Window 7 Pro?  If so your installation disc may have 
> come with a provision to install XP on a separate partition.
>
> Ken
>
> On 7/24/2015 2:57 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> My Nikon LS5000 scanner has died.  I haven't tried to fix it but 
>> consider this a directive to finally get the Imacon scanner up and 
>> running.  I turned it on and it lights up!  I have a SCSI to Firewire 
>> adapter and it all hooks up fine. ( Thank you, Doug!)  The problem is 
>> that the Windows XP laptop that I had intended to hook up to the 
>> scanner (I read that it does not work with any newer version of Windows)
has no port for the Firewire.
>> It has 4 USB ports, one called 1394. one round one and two square 
>> ones but nothing that looks like the Firewire plug.  Is there an 
>> adapter I need to get?  I've searched but I'm not sure what I'm sure for.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I wish photography did not involve computers.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>>