Firewire Daisy-Chain

[Chris Foote]

>
>Message-Id: <262599CA-50D8-11D8-B59A-000A959842E6 at mac.com>
>From: warwick teale <warwick_teale at mac.com>
>Subject: Re: [X-HW]    
>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:50:29 +0800
>
>HI, yeah.. a suggestion.
>
>May be an  issue of the failed drive may have been caused by having the
>isight camera on the same FW "hub"/"chain  as the drive. Several others
>and I had the same problem.
>
>Method:
>
>1) use isight camera by itself (only thing on FW path) when not powered
>from FW hub (powered externally that is)
>2) if necessity - then use isight camera through POWERED HUB (external
>power to the hub) when connecting other FW devices.
>
>Likely cause is that isight power consumption may cause some issues on
>buss... but that's a guess!
>
>Anyway, I had a 250GB drive hosed (lost all data (100GB) worth due this
>problem.
>
>
>w
>hk
>On 27/01/2004, at 10:28 PM, Jon Warms wrote:
>
>  > Anyone have any experience with daisy-chaining Firewire devices?
><snip>
>
>  > Jon

Firewire drives have known problems with the iSight. This was on 
MacFixit this week.
Chris
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