[G4] Firewire

[Eric Smith]

Firewire is a serial data bus interface, as USB is also. Some storage
devices use Firewire (1394) interface, some use USB, and some may be
configurable to use either. (And others will use entirely different
bus interfaces like ATA or SATA.)

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by moving information from one
hard drive to another. Generally one uses one's computer to do this,
so that information goes from one drive through the computer's
memory to the the other drive. In that case you just connect both
drives to the computer through whatever interface they use - USB, or
Firewire, or other. The computer handles the low-level communication
protocols, and the user uses a high-level application to do the data
transfer.

Eric

Anthony Lynch wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> So what is firewire? I've read several definitions online as well as a 
> few in print and none tell me how to use firewire for what I would like 
> to use it for which is connecting Macs to move information, applications 
> etc., from one hard drive to another. Any suggestions?
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
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