[X4U] firewire hub

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 6/24/06 8:39 AM, jwarms at mac.com <jwarms at mac.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:51:16 -0700, 
> Randy B.Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Is this still a valid/recent concern? I think this arose several major
> releases ago,  and my recollection is that Jaguar or something fixed this.

It arose with Panther and all of its Firewire problems. The iSight 1.0.2
software was supposed to alleviate the major issues.

> Of course, the built-in Isight on the newer machines makes this irrelevant.

Not if you don't have a newer machine.

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Eddie Hargreaves