At 12:48 PM -0500 3/1/2010, iJohn wrote:
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dan wrote:
FW can throw about 390 Mbps. That's usually faster
than most single devices can sustain.
That's just under 49 MB/s, isn't it? That strikes me as a tad
optimistic given my experience with firewire. Usually
> I have 3 FireWire 400 Devices that I'm considering daisy chaining: Two
> HDs and an optical drive.
> Are there any benefits, considerations, boot-ability (on the fw400
> devices) and what-not I don't know about, because I don't know about
> daisy chaining other than hooking up a bunch of devic
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dan wrote:
> FW can throw about 390 Mbps. That's usually faster
> than most single devices can sustain.
That's just under 49 MB/s, isn't it? That strikes me as a tad
optimistic given my experience with firewire. Usually it was somewhere
in the 30 to 36 MB/s range
At 7:34 PM -0800 2/28/2010, Michael G.M. wrote:
I have 3 FireWire 400 Devices that I'm considering daisy chaining:
Two HDs and an optical drive.
Are there any benefits, considerations, boot-ability (on the fw400
devices) and what-not I don't know about, because I don't know
about daisy chain
Hi Mike
It can depend on what you are doing. If its video editing, my
recomendation is to do it properly and get an eSata card fitted to
your G5 and get the Mercury Pro Qx2 - eSata is the most reliable way
to go.
The G5 looks on esata as an internaly connected device on the
motherboard, wheras fire
On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Michael G.M. wrote:
Anyone?
AFAIK there are no problems daisy-chaining FW400 devices. You should
be fine as long as you stay beneath the 63 total devices limit.
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I have 3 FireWire 400 Devices that I'm considering daisy chaining: Two
HDs and an optical drive.
Are there any benefits, considerations, boot-ability (on the fw400
devices) and what-not I don't know about, because I don't know about
daisy chaining other than hooking up a bunch of devices. Pros and
