PCMCIA card with Firewire 800 - Compatibility with a Vaio GRT 816S ?

[Tourniaire]

Hi everybody - Can I put a PCMCIA card including a Firewire 800 port on a Vaio PCG-GRT 816S, I have bought on January 2004 ? Is the machine compatible with this high speed port ?
Thanks for your help.

[seb21__]

There should be no problem.

They are 3 types of PCMCIA cards. (different size)

Type I : 3 millimeter
Type II : 5 millimeter
Type III : 10.5 millimeter

Type III is really rare today and was mostly used from harddisks.

Your VAIO supports them all.
So, buy it if you need it. It works.

[kee-lo_]

They're Type II

Let me know how you get on with that

[rich912]

I bought one for my son’s Dell recently, works a treat!
Have a look here.

[kee-lo_]

Does it make transfer any faster Rich, or does the hardware need to support firewire 800?

[seb21__]

If Sony use internationan standards, then it should work.

[Tourniaire]

Thanks Rich for this reply. Your card seems to be Firewire 400 and not 800. Am I right ?

[rich912]

On closer inspection of the picture I think that you are right. I thought that it had one 400 and one 800 port but as my son is away at present I can’t physically check it. As Seb rightly says, there should be no problem unless Sony has departed from international architecture, which I doubt. Windows 2000 and XP support Firewire 800.

[feederfan]

I didnt know PCMCIA could support transfer speeds that high!

[seb21__]

It support much more. Correct me if I'm wrong. But it's up to 132MegaByte per second. (in DWORD mode).

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