Firewire hard drive: Doubles as a hub

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Alright although i think this question was answered in another post a few minutes ago, i just wanna get this right....
WEll i have an external fireware hard drive, and it has two firewire ports on the back of it. One is going to the computer obvoiusly, and the other isn't doing anything. I can plug another firewire device in it?
I'm out of ports so i would really like to put my iPod in it (that i'm getting thursday so i can't try it out right now to test it out)

Yea so its probably a really dumb question w/ an obvoius answer of "yes you can" but i just wanna make sure.
Thanks
 
I believe you can use it to connect other drives, though I would be very careful. I managed to burn out two drives and my firewire port by trying to initialize a firewire drive that was connected to a drive that was connected directly to the computer. Check with the manufacturer or the owner's manual for "daisy chaining" capability.
 
I'm not sure, but I figured something out at school when importing footage from a digital video camera. If you are saving the imported footage onto the firewire drive, you must plug the camera's firewire plug into that drive, not into the computer. If you plug it into the computer, it won't work. Vice versa if you are saving it onto the computer.

If I were you, I'd try to avoid using the extra Firewire plug except when saving things onto your drive, just in case.
 
Originally posted by haley
I'm not sure, but I figured something out at school when importing footage from a digital video camera. If you are saving the imported footage onto the firewire drive, you must plug the camera's firewire plug into that drive, not into the computer. If you plug it into the computer, it won't work. Vice versa if you are saving it onto the computer.

If I were you, I'd try to avoid using the extra Firewire plug except when saving things onto your drive, just in case.
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well thats not true...
I have mine hooked up to my computer and saved directly to the firewire disk all the time..w/ no problems
 
Read the specs on the drive and see what the company has to say about it.
 
A) People who may need to reference it down the road. Besides, you should be able to find it online.

B) You mean the drive itself has no logo? No brand? Nothing? What about diagnostic tools? What do they say on the drive mechanism? manufacturer?
 
Well, I've plugged my iPod into my LaCie CD burner into my PowerBook G4, and that has worked fine in the past. Also, I have plugged my DV camera into a LaCie PocketDrive into my PowerBook G3... no problem either way.

Though... the hard drive did fail... but that was much later, and had nothing to do with daisy chaining, and everything to do with LaCie and their crappy service... I'm sorry, do I sound bitter?
 
What about plugging a FW HD into one mac, and plugging another mac into the other plug of the HD? Will this enable FW target mode, or will they both share the disk but not be able to access the other side? I.E. Can 2 macs share one cd burner at the same time? hmm
 
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