Firewire Daisy-Chain

[Jon Warms]

Anyone have any experience with daisy-chaining Firewire devices?

My client has a 20 inch FP iMac with Panther, two FW400 ports and
three FW devices: a LaCie FW400 drive, an iPod dock, and an iSight
webcam. Since FW supports daisy-chaining, and the drive has two
ports, he connected the iSight and the drive to the iMac, and the iPod
to the drive's second port.

It worked well for about a month. Yesterday, a Retrospect backup
to the drive failed. The iMac apparently completed locked up and
he had to restart.

Anyone have any experiences with this config or of any
problems with Retrospect under Panther?

Jon