Toshiba Satellite A105-S2101 has Firewire?

[canterburyflyer]

I have been using this old
Toshiba Satellite A105-S2101 as I do a make over on my editing deck and I got to looking at the various connections that could be made to this 2006 vintage. Of the many useful and already occupied there I found a mini ieee1394 input. SWo I plugged an older Mini DV camera into it. In the Device Manager there popped up a new header, 61883 Device Class __sub heading _61883 Class Bus Device with an yellow exclamation mark next to it. I am running Win XP Home. I looked up the spec for it and of course it is there in the list of connections. Nopw why is it that I am seeing this? Surely there is something missing here. It is an easy PnP situation. Drivers? Version of Windows? What dost thou thinkest gentlemen? I'd be grateful for any and all discourse on this as I would love to get it running. Regards, C

 

[COLGeek]

Sounds like you simply have a missing device driver (assuming for the camera).

Disconnect the camera and go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager. Are any devices indicating a driver issue (without the camera attached)?

 

[canterburyflyer]

Sounds like you simply have a missing device driver (assuming for the camera).

Disconnect the camera and go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager. Are any devices indicating a driver issue (without the camera attached)?

Sorry I have to manually check for replies COLGeek. Kind of you to respond. I must figure out how to get replies to show up in my email. I assume that is possible Anyway, there are no devices indicating a driver issue with out the camera connected. I am not sure that this old girl is really up to the task of handling video downloading given that it is a 1.6GHz CPU and that I will soon be changing it over to Win7 due to MS's discontinuation of support and such for Win XP I will have to contend with managing file and settings transfer. However it would be nice to get it to work. I have another Tower that I have a Creative LAbs Audigy Platinumm card in and with Win XP running, once I plug the camea in to the IEEE1394 port on the sound card I am immediately offerd a GUI giving me the standard options as to what to do with the data on the DV camera, which BTW it recognizes. I believe that I diud try to download a driver for thi matter and it was such a run around with unwanted advertizing or sidekicks apps that go along with it that I gave up in frustration. What would you suggest my next move would be?

 

[COLGeek]

You should get notifications at the email address you have established in your user profile here in the site. Just check your settings.

I suspect that the firewire port on the Satellite is the issue. Do you have any other firewire devices that you could connect to the port to see if properly recognized?

Could also be a cable issue (assuming you used a different cable than used on your other system).

 

[canterburyflyer]

I sorted out the problem, the return notifications were coming to my Gmail under "Promotions"
And ...No I have nothing else to test this with, I even went to the trouble of ordering a firewire adapter to get from the large plug down to the size that the Toshiba has as the I/O IEEE port. There is no activity whatsoever when I plug the camera in. I just see that the scenario as I mentioned in my original submission. An exclamation next to "61883 Class Bus Device" While powered on.
It really isn't that big a deal if I cannot get this working COLGeek It is not my editing deck, I just use this one for online purposes. THe CPU will be here shortly for the the Video Work Station. And I am certain not to have any problems there. Its just that it should work and because it doesn't, it kind of makes you want to solve the the issue just to get your ducks in a row, if you get my meaning. Any other ideas? Or should we put this to bed and let it rest?

 

[COLGeek]

Really sounds like a cable/connector issue. I have seen wonky behavior with some firewire devices with some cables, especially on older devices (my daughter is a film student and works a great deal with firewire devices). She has a bag of good, various format (based on connector sizes) cables to deal with these issues.