[MacDV] FireWire Hub?

[revDAVE]

On 11/21/04 10:59 AM, "ShirleyK" <ShirleyKat at cox.net> wrote:

> It must be a possibility and not just a chain. I once tried to hook up
> 2 iPods to that powered hub and got some of the strangest behavior I've
> ever seen. I don't remember the details now, but I could not see both
> iPods and they seemed to be mixed up with each other's names. In fact,
> that might have been the beginning of my FireWire problems on the iMac.
> 
> I asked Chris Breen why I couldn't have two iPods connected at the same
> time and he chose to put that question in his column. The answer was
> that it was OK to do it if both were connected either to the ports on
> the computer directly or to a powered hub. I was using this same IOGear
> powered hub and may have had one or two other devices on it. Evidently
> it did not supply enough power to handle 2 iPods. Currently it's
> handling an old 160 GB Maxtor drive and a compact flash card reader.
> 
> Now here is something really strange to me. So far we've been talking
> about FW 400 devices. But I have two external LaCie 800 drives. One is
> connected to the FW 800 port and the second drive is connected to the
> first drive. I was trying to update the firmware on both and could not
> until I disconnected the FW hub. In fact LaCie told me to not even have
> another empty FW cable connected to the computer.
> 
> Because I don't like the noise the larger drive makes, I had been
> powering it off (by pulling the plug from the UPS) after shutdown. I
> discovered that I can just disconnect the FW 400 hub and that powers
> off both external drives. Would you believe that the FW 400 hub would
> power off two other drives connected to a different FW 800 port? Seems
> like voodoo to me.


Wow! That all sounds very disturbing to me. Very weird - as if we all don't
have enough problems already...

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