you can daisy chain from any firewire port when connecting from a firewire 400 device to a firewire 800 device, the firewire 800 device will act as a firewire 400 device (in terms of speed/performance) regards and happy new year ------------------------- FireWire Depot http://www.fwdepot.com On Dec 30, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote: > I just bought two Firewire drives equipped with FW400 and FW800 ports. > I don't have FW800 connections on any of my computers and was hoping > to daisey chain these two drives. My other FW drives have two FW400 > connections to allow this, but these drives have (1) FW400, and (2) > FW800 connections. Can I connect the drive to the computer via the > FW400 connection and then daisey chain the next drive via the FW800 > connections? > > DaleH > _______________________________________________ > FireWire mailing list > FireWire at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/firewire > >