FireWire ports

djZen · Post by **djZen** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:10 pm

Ok yall...gotta question.....I'm gettin a firewire interface...and believe I need a Firewire external hard drive to avoid latency slowdown issues, right?

So heres the deal the macbook I got has a single firewire port...is there a splitter/extension to make 2 or 3 Firewire ports out of the 1? Does this degrade the signal from the main port?

What is the ideal setup with regards to firewire drives and interfaces out of one laptop?

thank you!

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:51 pm

Normal the audio cards and the hard drives have 2 firewire ports.
So from your macbook firewire to your audio card and from the audio card to the hard drive.

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:19 pm

Yes, I think that what DJ Vakis said is the normal way. Daisy-chaining them together.

djZen · Post by **djZen** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:41 am

thnks do you guys mean......

macbook to interface/audiocard to hard drive?

microlive · Post by **microlive** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:17 am

Yes young padawan... that is the way of the Jedi!

compositeone · Post by **compositeone** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:01 pm

I would suggest putting the sound card at the end of the chain and the hard drive in the middle. It worked better for me anyway.

djZen · Post by **djZen** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:26 pm

sweetnass

thanks fellow knights

suspended childhood · Post by **suspended childhood** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:59 pm

some people (including myself) reported losing data on their seagate ext drives when going lappy>motu ultralite>seagate hd

they may have fixed that problem by now (they being motu) but i havent had time to look into it.

all my data that i lost was a backup so i was good to go.

just my 2 cents.