[MacDV] FireWire Hub?

[ShirleyK]

An iPod can be pretty demanding (according to Chris Breen and Apple). I 
put one on an IOGear hub last night along with an older 160 GB Maxtor 
hard drive and it worked fine (I think). I transferred about 25 GB of 
music. There were some abrupt endings on a few songs, but perhaps 
that's the way the music got downloaded or transferred across the 
network from one computer to another computer's external drive.

I suspect that sometimes FireWire ports in the computer go bad or there 
is another software issue. I've had some really weird stuff happen on 
the iMac that stumped the guru at the Apple store too. When I move the 
device that won't work on the iMac's FW port to the FW hub on another 
computer, it works fine. But sometimes I can put a different device on 
the port that I thought was bad, and that device works fine.

Does anyone remember SCSI voodoo?

I don't know if there is an unpowered FireWire hub, but if there is, 
avoid it. Don't get the cheapest thing you can find either. Look for 
promises to deliver full power to every port on the hub.

Shirley


On Nov 17, 2004, at 12:02 PM, revDAVE wrote:

> Based on my earlier thread : SONY Camcorder - Is It broken?
>
> Solution : there were too many firewire items in the chain - and the 
> Sony
> camera started working when I took things out of the FireWire chain...
>
> That brings up another question: FireWire hub?
>
> I noticed that there is a product that is a FireWire hub. I never 
> really saw
> a use for this before, however maybe if it keeps the the connections 
> clean (
> and maybe provides power to the line) - then maybe it would solve the
> problem. Do you think this might help?