Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The preferred thing would be to run the FW800 and the FW400 devices in their recommended ports. In the case of a hard drive running FW800 at a sustained transfer speed of 50MB/sec, using the FW400 port can drop it to around 40MB/sec. I'm not sure how noticeable this would be but I prefer to have everything optimized. Len On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information