[X4U] iSight Camera And Other FireWire Devices

[Eugene]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:29:00AM -0800, revDAVE wrote:
: 
: A while back I heard the disturbing news about using an iSight FireWire
: camera along with other external FireWire drives. It said that using the
: iSight camera could actually damage other external FireWire drives - YOUCH!
: 
:  - So basically I stopped using my iSight camera ever since that time.
: 
: -  has anyone else found this to be true?
: 
: -   have there ever been any updates that fix this issue?
: 
: - Can anyone point me to any actual information that either confirms or
: denies this issue?

Myself, I have not heard any information that confirms this.
In fact, I'm not aware of any case in which a connected Firewire
device damaged other connected devices (except in the case of a
Firewire devices that provides power, and something happened like
an unprotected power supply getting fried via a power surge/spike).


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/