You may need Firewire cables or gender changers to go from whatever port is on the camcorder (4 or 6 pin Firewire 400) to the Firewire 800 connector on the adapter, but that should all be regular Firewire cabling nothing specifically to do with Thunderbolt. The computer needs to support Thunderbolt (which it should, being a 'new iMac'), but the camcorder doesn't, because it's going to be connecting to the Firewire side. You can get a Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter from Apple for $30. In a few moments, the Mac will bot as usual and the target Mac’s hard drive should. Boot the target Mac while holding down the ‘T’ key until you see a Firewire or Thunderbolt icon displayed on screen, this signifies that target disk mode is detected and working. My question is then, can I get a firewire/thunderbold cable, and if so, would my computer recognize it although, thunderbolt didn't exist at the time when I purchased my camcorder (2005)? Any suggestions welcome. Now connect both Mac’s to each other with the Firewire or Thunderbolt cable.

The Thunderbolt adapter gives you a FireWire. I'm not familiar enough with the improvements in USB 3.0 to know if a USB 3.0 to Firewire converter is feasible, but I'm not aware of any such converters (working or otherwise). This compact Mac accessory with built-in Thunderbolt cable connects to the Thunderbolt port on your Mac computer. I have seen a few converter cables advertised, but when you read feedback by customers who have actually purchased them, they turn out to be scams. Firewire has features like support for 'guaranteed' real-time bandwidth that USB 1.0/2.0 lack. I tried with a firewire 4p to USB (leee1394), (as I thought the old one was of that type) but my computer doesn't register the camcorder.Īs far as I know, there is no such thing as a Firewire-to-USB (1.0/2.0) cable that actually works as advertised. If the mixer is still not recognized then you'll need to contact us to see about getting the unit repaired as the 1394 port may no longer be operational.

Try plugging a 1394 Hard Drive into the computer to verify the 1394 port is working, and/or plug the 16.4.2 into another computer to verify that the 1394 on it is working. You must power down both the mixer and the computer before connecting or disconnecting the 1394 cable. If you are still having this issue, then there may be a problem with the 1394 ports either on your Mac or on the StudioLive 16.4.2ġ394 / FireWire is NOT a hot plug technology like USB is. Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have a firewire port. I want to transfer data from my pc laptop to the 6 pin firewire port of my macbook. Then once it's removed, you'll need to reinstall Universal Control 1.2 found at the very bottom of this page: I received my brand new white macbook yesterday :) (so much to do, and so little time). Please review this article on how to remove Universal Control from your system:

You may have installed a newer version of Universal Control that does not support this old version of OS X. The only version of Universal Control that is supported on Mac OS X 10.5 is Universal Control 1.2.

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