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  Daisychain Firewire Drives

  Posted by Richard Martz on December 21, 2006 at 7:44 pm

  I’m just wondering how may Firewire drives I can daisy chain together before encountering problems. I usually only use one or two at a time and that has been no problem but I’m about to add a 3rd a 4th drive and that gave me pause for concern. What is the imit?

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  Steve Cohen

  December 21, 2006 at 8:50 pm

  I don’t really know what the limit is, but I have had 4 daisy chained together and have not had a problem.

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  Greg Ball

  December 21, 2006 at 9:08 pm

  We’ve had 6 with no problem
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  Jeff Carpenter

  December 21, 2006 at 9:08 pm

  It’s sixty something. 63? 64? I’m not sure. But I think you’re safe.

  Note that this number is what the firewire bus on the comptuer can handle. I’ve heard it said that you shouldn’t go over 16 FW cables in a single chain. So if you had 30 drive you should do 15 in one chain and 15 on a 2nd chain to another firewire port on the computer.

  Not that I’ve ever heard of anyone doing anything close to that in the real world.
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  Richard Martz

  December 21, 2006 at 9:57 pm

  Thanks to everyone. I think I can do this project with something less than 60 firewire dirves so we should be OK.

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