External FireWire daisy chain

[Rob Lewis]

I can't claim direct experience, but this seems like hooey to me. When 
an application accesses a device on the FireWire bus, I doubt it can 
even tell which port it's connected to. Even though a machine may have 
2 (or more) ports, I believe it's all the same logical bus.

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 05:23 US/Pacific, Macintosh Digital Video 
List 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.