Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] External Hard Drives - Combining FW400 and 800 OK?
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon Aug 28 10:19:29 2006
References: <p06230904c118b4316ca6@10.0.1.2>

You might want to invest in a FireWire hub to run other FW400 ports
and use the 800 port for your RAID drives.

Adam

On 8/28/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
> The 80 GB internal drive in my iMac G5 is about full and it's time to
> add external storage.  Based on recent discussions here, I'm planning
> on adding two 250 or 320 GB external disks in a RAID 1 configuration.
> My iMac G5 has two Fire Wire 400 ports, one of which is dedicated to
> my scanner.
>
> Many of the newer drives come with only one FW400 port and two FW800 ports.
>
> Is is acceptable to connect one of the drives via FW400 to the iMac
> and then daisy chain the second disc into the system using FW800?
>
> Many thanks.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
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