Can't argue with what works for you, but it's contrary to the expert's advice. Check out the Creative Cow forum (www.creativecow.net) Apple Final Cut Pro forum. There was a recent thread about this with posts by Walter Biscardi, Ralph, and Tom Wolsky (FCP gurus) <http://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=105687715283077&forum id=8> I'm just going by what the experts say. sb On 7/25/03 10:55 AM, "Sean W.Gallagher" <swg at greatertalent.com> wrote: > > On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 01:46 PM, sb wrote: > >> it's quite likely that you don't have any trouble using two ports at >> the same >> time, but working in Final Cut, you must use a daisy chain. The >> application is not >> able to send information up and down both ports simultaneously. > > Really? Because I have my deck and my external drive hooked up to > separate ports and it all works fine. > > -Sean >