FW daisychaining

rwchadwick · Post by **rwchadwick** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:10 pm

I have a new intel macbook which has only1 firwire jack. Will I be OK daisy chining external drives lwith my 896 interface? Does it matter where in the chain the 896 is? Sorry, I'm not as bright as I used to be!:) Or do I need a FW hub? I've not had good look with USB hubs in the past, none of the MIDI interfaces will work with any I tried.

Noizemaker · Post by **Noizemaker** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:15 am

I do it all the time with my ibook and it's always been fine. ibook to the 896 to the HD.

rcannonp · Post by **rcannonp** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:50 am

I prefer to put the HD before my 896. If the HD is behind the 896, turning off the 896 will disconnect the drive.

gearboy · Post by **gearboy** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:54 am

Does FW400 read/write (aka track count) bandwidth suffer because of this? Obviously it's not a problem with a MacBook Pro since you can setup another FW bus with the card slot (how I run my PB/828mkii/Lacie D2 Drive).

Jeff

Resonant Alien · Post by **Resonant Alien** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:10 am

I don't know about the 896 - I tried this with an 828mkII and it did not work well at all. Now I have an RME Fireface, and daisy chaining works great. Seems the 828mkII must have some FW implementation issues.