i may need to buy a hub. our tape deck only has one firewire port on it so i wouldn’t be able to switch the arrangement (imac->tape deck->external hard drive).
but now my issue is time i guess. the only place i can purchase a good firewire hub that i’ve found is from B&H and they’re closed till Wednesday for passover :/
i’ve called everywhere around my location (best buy, staples, radio shack, etc…) and no one actually carries these in store. i guess you have to order them online no matter what.
i have read reviews of people saying they use them for their imac’s, but no one has specifically mentioned using them for tape decks. i’m just hoping that i can buy one next week and i don’t have an issue with it.
do you think that using a firewire800 hub coming out of my imac, and having both the external hard drive AND the tape deck plugged into the hub would help my situation? or should that still not work since i’ve now got information going from the tape deck into the hub and then into the computer through one firewire cable, then back out into the hub and into the external drive.
just because daisy chaining them all in the first place made sense in my mind, but apparently that didn’t work. i want to check and see if this will work before i go and buy a $100 device just to find i get the same problems again.