[MacDV] Re: Newbie stuff; external FW drives

[Steven Rogers]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 11:10 AM, sb wrote:

> When connecting the camera, the computer, and the external FW drive, 
> make sure you are daisy chaining them. Computer to harddrive to 
> camera. This is important on desktop machines, which have 2 FW ports. 
> You only want to use one FW port when working with video editing 
> applications.

What's the effect of doing it the other way?  I have mine set up with 
the camera in one port and a 120 G firewire drive in the other - 
haven't seen any adverse effects yet.

SR