Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]and why not just use the 400 port? ric On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Leonard Taupier wrote: > Steve, > > When mixing firewire 800 and 400 devices the speed of the 800 device > will be slowed to 400. > > BTW even though Firewire 400 and 800 are Apple devices you can > purchase Firewire cards for Windows PC machines. > > Len > > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Steve Unsworth wrote: > >> I have a totally off topic question. >> >> I've just moved from an XP desktop to a 24" iMac. This has a >> Firewire 800 >> interface - something my old desktop didn't. >> >> So I've connected an external hard drive with Firewire 800 >> interface to the >> Firewire 800 port on the iMac. So far so good. I also have two >> other drives >> with Firewire 400 interfaces. >> >> Rather than connect them to the Firewire 400 interface on the iMac >> I've >> daisy chained them with the Firewire 800 drive (it has USB, >> Firewire 400 and >> Firewire 800 interfaces). So the chain is iMac -> Firewire 800 -> >> 400 -> >> 400. >> >> Phew, onto my question. Will having the Firewire 400 drives in the >> chain >> slow down the Firewire 800 drive to their speed? >> >> Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance. >> >> I'm loving the iMac by the way, should have moved ages ago. >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information