[FW] FW400 > FW800 Daisey chaining?

Richard Castillo casti020 at umn.edu
Thu Dec 30 07:39:38 PST 2004


Since the connectors are different you will need an adapter.
http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.134/it.A/id.276/.f

And, you don't want to mistake the 400 regular to 400 mini adapter for 
the 800 to 400 adapter.


FWDepot Support wrote:

> you can daisy chain from any firewire port
>
> when connecting from a firewire 400 device to a firewire 800 device, 
> the firewire 800 device will act as a firewire 400 device (in terms of 
> speed/performance)
>
> On Dec 30, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I just bought two Firewire drives equipped with FW400 and FW800 
>> ports. I don't have FW800 connections on any of my computers and was 
>> hoping to daisey chain these two drives....
>>
>> DaleH
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