Thread: How to secure firewire plug?

Welcome to the land of crappy connectors. Try duct tape. Tape it down. There is no way to secure that connection.

All wrapped up
Ms. Remy Ann David

Neatest way I have seen is one of my friends has a laptop with a firewire and other connectors that he wanted to secure. He got a board about 4 inches bigger than the laptop and built a holder for the laptop using some pieces of aluminum screwed to the board. He then used cable clamps (available at Radio Shack or any electronics distributor) to hold his Firewire , his network and the power connectors. All he has to do is drop the laptop into the frame and hook up the connectors and he is in solid.

Hope this helps.

thanks

I might try that piece of board-tip

I was also thinking about getting a cardbus-firewire-card which would allow me to use a 6-pin firewire plug, maybe that'd be better?

Cheers

We have the firewire PCMIA card by Adaptec and it works well.

the 6 pin firewire will give you a more solid connection... but if people are doing any "bumping" as you said... i wouldn't trust either of them.

you could get the pcmcia card and epoxy the firewire cord to the connection... :twisted: that sounds like something I would do...

Thanks all,

I ordered a pcmia-fw card

I'll have to pray it'll work smoothly on my system
(the pcmia is on the same irq as my videocard...)

If it works (irq's and such)
I will try to tape, maybe glue, it save

Cheers

ps
I'll update on my progress,
or lack thereof...