[X4U] firewire hub

[Randy B.Singer]

Jan Melichar said:

>Thanks for the various comments. From what has been said it sounds as  
>if it will be business as usual for me. My problem is not speed of  
>access...


Actually, your problems might go away if you put each drive on its own 
separate FireWire bus.

There have been a number of reports of flaky behavior, even data 
corruption, from putting multiple high bandwidth devices on one FireWire 
bus, which exceeds the bandwidth of your FireWire bus.  

You may have heard about this with regard to attaching both an iSight and 
an external FireWire drive to one FireWire bus and using them 
simultaneously.  Some folks have reported completely corrupting their 
hard drive from doing this.

I'd love to give you citations for this, but the ones that I have are all 
to Apple discussion lists, and Apple has a way of removing discussions 
that aren't terribly flattering to Apple...


 

Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
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