both usb ports not working although they have power, can I use my firewire to convert to usb with the right lead any ideas on what this lead might be. I'm thinking a 1039b to female usb 2 if such a thing excists...any help appreciated....Phil
The short answer is basically, no. FireWire and USB are different architectures, a simple adapter will not do the trick.
It is possible to connect FireWire peripherals to a Thunderbolt-capable Mac, though you'd need a couple of adapters, the first of which is no longer made (Apple's Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter and Apple's Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter). But that first adapter is unidirectional, meaning you can use it for a FireWire peripheral but not to connect things to the FireWire port on an older Mac.
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both usb ports not working although they have power, can I use my firewire to convert to usb with the right lead any ideas on what this lead might be. I'm thinking a 1039b to female usb 2 if such a thing excists...any help appreciated....Phil
OWC/Macsales does offer several external drives https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME3QH7T2.0/ that have USB 3.1 as well as Firewire. So you could use one of those drives and your Firewire connection; later you can use the USB 3.1 on those drives to copy files to a new or newer computer that has high speed USB working.
Yeah well I thought as much, just looking for a magic solution lead that would be the answer.... time to ditch the old girl...14 years of service can't be bad, grown kinda attached I bet these newer models couldn't survive falling off the roof of my car twice... anyway thanks for the reply
Thanks for the reply I thought that would be the way to go.....
mid 2010 MBP
