SmartDisk FireWire CardBus Card

This device would not work on my Wallstreet G3 under 9.2.2. It didn't work on my neighbor's Powerbook G4 under Classic or Jaguar. I reached this conclusion after trying two different units and numerous extension configurations during three weeks of experimentation. I suggest any Powerbook user needing FireWire ports cough up the extra bucks for an Adaptec unit, which Amazon also carries.

This card auto-installed ok, and pretended to work, but I had lots of problems making it work with an iPod. Sometimes Win2000 crashed (which it never has before on my laptop), sometimes I got an application-level error saying there's not space left on the iPod. When I replaced this Firewire card with another, everything worked great.

if your laptop does not have a firewire port, you need a pcmcia firewire card. this one is inexpensive and it gets the job done. i would not use this to charge your ipod though because it sucks up laptop battery power. as we all know, laptops are notorious for not lasting that long on battery!

I just got this product for my iPod, and couldn't be happier. For starters, the FireWire Card is much better than I expected (I received the newer SmartDisk branded card with the plugs directly in the card - no cable). Then, I just plugged it to my Toshiba laptop (running Win2000) and there was nothing else to do, not even waiting for Windows to recognize it! In 30 seconds I was synchronizing my iPod seamlessly.In short, I fully recommend it.