[G4] Fire port inside sawtooth?

[B G]

FireWire is essentially a very fast serial version of SCSI . It  
supports 63 devices, has a bandwidth of 400 Mbps, is hot swappable  
like USB, and supplies up to 60W of power to FireWire devices.

And, because it's related to SCSI, it requires less CPU control than  
the IDE family of interfaces.

So by building a internal FireWire port into the Sawtooth  
motherboard, Apple made it possible to add additional internal high  
speed drives without using IDE slave mode (which is slower than  
master mode) or adding a SCSI or IDE card.

Doesn't that sound nice, unfortunately the hardware market never  
caught on. The price on IDE dropped really fast and now SATA is the  
way to go.

So you have a nice port and not much to plug into it.

Brian

G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM

On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Mark Laurint wrote:

> What is the firewire port for that's inside my G4 400 Sawtooth  
> case? It there a way to install a firewire drive inside, or is  
> there even a internal Firewire drive?
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> Mark Laurint
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