Using an iPod with a Wallstreet Powerbook

Mar 20, '03 09:58:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

In order to use your iPod with the Wallstreet Powerbooks, it is necessary to purchase a FireWire PCMCIA card, and then startup a fully charged iPod in a special mode. This approach is acceptable, but it doesn't work that well.

An alternative to this approach is to purchase an external FireWire drive with a powered bus (you still need the PCMCIA FireWire card), and connect your iPod to the extra FireWire port on the drive. Now your iPod is connected to a powered FireWire port. Consider doing this when it's time to upgrade your internal hard drive. Just make sure you get a powered FireWire drive.

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