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: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Mon Aug 28 10:51:18 2006
References: <p06230904c118b4316ca6@10.0.1.2> <4cfa589b0608281019rd75811dwa7686863430f111a@mail.gmail.com>

Unfortunately no FW800 ports on the machine at all.  :-(

>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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-- 
Regards,

Dick

In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] External Hard Drives - Combining FW400 and 800 OK?)