<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">MacBook Pro only has one Firewire port and I daisy chain the camera to 3 external hard-drives and an external DVD burner it has always worked successfully.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gerhard<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>On Feb 3, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Joan Keenan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">However the movie that I want to back up to dv tape is on an external hard drive and since the mini only has one firewire connection </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>