[X4U] firewire hub

[Jan Melichar]

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