828 mkII firewire 400 or 800 ??

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corales
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828 mkII firewire 400 or 800 ??

Post by corales »

iMac intel...two firewire ins....800 and 400

if I use the 800 port ....is best ???
The 828 mkII support 800 firewire ???
is just a diferent firewire cable only???

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Post by jrdmcdnld »

400 works fine. Plenty of bandwidth. 400 supports up to 4 motu interfaces in a daisy chain...and a hard drive on the end.
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Post by sourgrapes »

far as i know it is only capable of 400

it can of course be connected to an 800 input, but that will not increase or change the transfer rate
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Post by corales »

Thanks...for your help
8)
2 MOTU 828mkII
iMac (intel)(the silver one)OSX
Sony Vaio
Vista and XP
Cubase 4
MIDI Guitar
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