At 5:09 AM -0700 10/11/2011, Geke wrote:
To not confuse you further, I'll try and focus on the main topics ;-)
Firewire was designed for connection to one computer only: it is not
a network.
Incorrect. Firewire was designed to interconnect n devices. Said
devices can be computers or peripherals or even network adapters.
*Apple's SOFTWARE in the OS* does not support chains containing more
than one computer, UNLESS you've enabled IP over Firewire, in which
case it can be used as a computer to computer network interconnect
with no other peripherals directly involved.
Daisy-chaining means that you can connect a second harddisk, a
scanner, camera, or other device (not computers) to the first one,
for example if the computer has only one Firewire port, or simply
for nicer cabling.
Not just a "second". IEEE 1394, aka iLink, aka Firewire, actually a
form of SCSI-3, supports up to 63 hot-pluggable devices per bus. And
the cables can be up to 14' long.
Why you can't connect the other way around could have something to
do with the different versions of Appletalk software in different
OSes,
Not AppleTalk. AT is moot; it's just the transport layer, replaced by IP.
The difficulty is the support for the older versions of AFP (Apple
Filing Protocol) that Apple dropped as each new OS was released.
This creates a very annoying incompatibility between Macs, that Apple
never bothered to fix.
- Dan.
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