On 24 Jun 2006, at 06:51, Randy B.Singer wrote: > 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 Ok I'm getting the drift.... and note Phil's comment. Can you please recommend a multi-port FireWire PCI card (G5) - make rather that source since I'm in Britain. Jan