Macally USB2,Firewire card

Published: August 13, 2003

Editor: Amber Lupala

Provider: Macally

Introduction

Well this seems to be a pleasing pci card that has 2 firewire and 2 USB 2.0 ports on it.We are going to take a look at it now and discuss their specifications.

About Macally:

Macally Europe
Teklink Europe BV
Unit 14, Kerkenbos 10-111
6546 BJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 24 373 14 10
Fax: + 31 24 373 11 34
e-mail: sales@macally-europe.com

Macally U.S.A
Mace Group Inc.
15861 Tapia Street,
Irwindale, CA 91706
Tel: 626. 338.8787
Fax: 626.338.3585
e-mail: info@macally.com

Macally Taiwan
Chia Shin Technology Corporation
2F, No. 60, Lane 321 , Yangkuang St.,
Taipei, Taiwan 114, R.O.C.
Tel: 886. 2. 8797.8958
Fax: 886. 2. 8797.8665
e-mail: macally@macally.com.tw

Specifications on the product:

- Package includes: PCI card and manual
- Fully compatible with 1394a OHCI specification V1.0
- Fully compliance with 1394a specifications V1.1
- EHCI based USB 2.0 Hi-Speed compliant and OHCI based USB 1.1 compliant
- Bus Type: Universal PCI 2.2 compliant
- FCC Part15, Class B, & CE
- Net Weight: 75gr
- Dimensions 121mm(W), 144mm (L), 18mm (H)

Features:

-Provides both FireWire & USB ports on one PCI card
- Supports hot swap and Plug-and-Play
- Easily download your video from high-resolution digital camcorders and set up a DV editing audio on your computer
- Add virtually unlimited storage with multiple FireWire and USB external hard drives and CD-RW drives
- Installs quickly and easily to internal PCI slot
- Supports all USB speeds: USB 2.0 EHCI 480 Mbps and USB 1.1 OHCI 12 Mbps
- Connects both USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 devices to your computer simultaneously
- 2 year warranty

System Requirements:

- Any Macintosh with a PCI 2.1 compliant slot
- MacOS 10.1.1 or later for USB2.0
- MacOS 8.6 or later for USB1.0
- MacOs 9.0 and FireWire 2.4 or later for FireWire

The product:

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As usual Macally sends their products in nicely packed boxes as we can see here.

Let�s take a look at the PCI card; it’s in a brilliant shade of red. As you can see you have to put on a power connector so that the USB 2.0 will work properly.

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