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IntelDuo/Imac-Duel firewire usage.
I want to plug in two external firewire hardrives into my mac. It seems that only one can be read at a time..Am I missing something here??
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You can easily connect at least two firewire drives at a time. Some folks connect four or more.
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Yes, you can chain-link many firewire drives in to one Firewire port. I have an iMac with 2 firewire ports, and I have 3 drives connected to them at the moment.
You can even chain link two drives together with 400 and 800 Mbit data ports, but then you operate with lower speed rate, unless you keep the order so, that faster drives (800) are first, then last are the slower 400 drives. No bottle neck so to speak.
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Just remember that these will all be on just one Fire-Wire bus, and this will slow down and not be fast enough for editing, depending on your media and codec.
The solution is to add a fire-wire card and create another separate bus. Unfortunately iMacs have no provision for this.Cheers
Alexander
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