Digital BW, The Print

You may be completely right. I know nothing about Firewire. Let me 
clear it: if the six wire cable's plug has 5 corners ( like: ##> ) and 
four wire cable's plug has 4 ( like: ## ) then the plug on my scanner 
is definitely the six wire version - that's a fact (but the scanner has 
it's own power cable which is another fact). The computer side may 
differ according to one's configuration (my interface card has 3 very 
same plugs on the scanner). I think the original poster of the question 
may choose the appropiate cable inspecting his/hers computer's Firewire 
interface and using the information provided until now (if like ## then 
a 4p-6p cable else 6p-6p cable). BTW I'm using the 6p-6p cable - with 
success - for my configuration (which is another fact too).

P.S. Using the Firewire interface does not affect the speed of scanning.

Regards,
Loris.

----- Original Message -----
From: William Smith <william@...>
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:38 pm
Subject: [Digital BW] FireWire Connection for Epson 2450

> The six wire FireWire cable is for units that are powered thru the 
> cable, ie: iPod, etc.
> With the iPod you can recharge either to a charger or to the 
> FireWire 
> card in the computer using
> the same cable.
> The extra two wires are the power lines.
> I don't think the Epson scanner is powered this way.
> If the scanner has it's own power cable it is not.
> It is mostly a Apple thing - Apple invented FireWire - but not always.