Customer Reviews

D-Link 3-Port IEEE 1394 Firewire Adapter Card

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

The card installs quickly right out of the box and Windows 2000
recognized it without loading any other drivers.
Unfortunately, the TI chipset used in these cards seems to have
some issues identifying the iPod player. The exact error message
is that the device failed to start and I get a Code 10 error.
So, even though this may be a great card, I'm sending mine back

Plugged the card in and XP did the rest. I connect a Canon ZR25 camcorder to the firewire and works perfectly. The card is definitely OHCI compliant which is required for video editing software.

I was saving video to my hard drive and editing it 45 minutes after popping open the box on this card.

The card comes with a 6 to 4 pin Firewire cable, so no need to purchase one seperately (like I did not knowing that).

Manual is fine. Installation was easy (I have installed cards before though - not sure how easy the installation would be for someone who has never opened their computer's case before).

Software that comes with it did not work on Windows ME for me (even though the software's site says no problems are reported), but I'm using Windows Movie Maker and that's working fine for now.

Dell Dimension 8200 running Windows XP. Using a Canon ZR45. Opened the case, put in the card, closed the case, plugged in the camcorder (turned on), turned on the computer and started capturing video. Easy.

I have several different brand 1394 cards for my business; The D-Link is one I brought for my personal use. It is terrible! It is slow, it often looses connections, and it doesn't work with certain devices.

Just to make sure I didn't have a bad unit, I switched it out with second one. It unit didn't work either. I have several of them and they all have the same horrible functionality. Buy an Adaptec or a PYRO, or a SIIG. They are far superior!

I don't think you can find a better value. The price could easily be spent on just the cable. Using a Dell 8200 with XP, I had no problem with the installation or use.

I have an HP, with a W2000 operating system, and the card worked great with my Yamaha CD burner. The software required for the Firewire card was included in the W2000 OS, so you should be able to install the card and fire it up after restart.

Who would I recommend this product to? Windows 98 users who won't be upgrading to ME.

The product will not work with Windows ME, period. I called tech support, there was nothing they could do. There are NO drivers available for this product on Windows ME. If you trying installing the drivers, it will freeze your pc every time you turn on your dv camcorder. I recommend Windows ME users do NOT buy this device, as D-LINK corp obviously DOES NOT care at all about their customers using a more recent version of Windows.

I certainly thought I was getting a bargain deal when buying this from Amazon.Com. Boy was I wrong!

This card works very well with our Sony DCR-PC110 digital video camera. I had no problems downloading video into the movie maker software that comes with WindowsME and editing a few clips together. I haven't spent a lot of time playing with it, but it has worked flawlessly for us so far.

It wasn't very hard to install this card. Actually it was very simple. It is just like most other PCI cards. Just open up your case insert it into a free PCI slot and close the case back up. Then when you reboot your computer just install the drivers from the software D-Link gives you.

BOTTOMLINE: Everything worked fine and I am now able to edit my digital video fater than ever with this new firewire access.