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  OT: Firewire 400 -800

  Posted by Terry Esslinger on September 20, 2006 at 4:13 pm

  Just wondering how you would know (or test for) whether you had firewire 400 or 800 ports. Wouldn’t do much good to have FW 800 external HD is you plagged it into FW400 port – or would it?

  Anoni Moose replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Charles Avanti

  September 20, 2006 at 10:49 pm

  Terry here is some good info on FW 400 & 800
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire

  at a quick look 400 = 4 pin and 800 = 9 pin

  Charlie

  
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  Anoni Moose

  September 20, 2006 at 11:20 pm

  Beware that if you DO have 1394b (800 Mhz) ports on an XP machine and you
  upgrade to SP2, the port’s performance may be very bad (sets the port speed very
  low). There’s a fix for it that a little google’ing will find.

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