Firewire external HD

[carltonh]

I have added a firewire card on my PC (about 5 years old), but it has USB1 not USB2.

Is it possible to connect a USB2 external hard drive to a firewire connection via some kind of different cable?

[Danno]

unfortunately this is not possible. usb and frewire are comletely different technologies. the easiest way to add usb2 to your pc would be using a controller card like this one,

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-USB4PO (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-USB4PO)

[carltonh]

I do not have a spare PCI slot :(, is it possible to get a firewire/usb combined card

[gwendes]

If your machine does not have an inteface faster than USB 1.0then I'm afraid that is simply a limitation. There is no way of increasing the harware capability.