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i have two 896s and several fire-wire external drives. what can i do when my old mac gos south ? i suppose i could move all my projects to something else . don't want to. any way to keep using my stuff? if motu leaves me hanging out to dry it's just a mater if time till they do it again so...... what?

Would something like http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ ... MgodAR0AbQ work?

Mac Minis still have a firewire port plus Apple makes a TB to firewire adapter. If you end up going with a dock, I'd recommend this from CalDigit http://www.amazon.com/CalDigit-Thunderb ... 01&sr=8-12. I use this with a Mac Mini - I have one firewire port on the Mini and then another off the dock via an Apple TB adapter. The thing works great with Mavericks - no drivers, just plug in and all ports are live. The CalDigit unit is the only I've seen with an additional TB port for expansion. For those with older TB Minis with USB 2.0 this gives you three USB 3.0 ports (which I'm now transitioning to for session drives). You can pick up good USB 3.0 external cases for less than $20 which accept both SSD and traditional 2.5" drives.

I bought one of the Apple TB>Firewire cables for my new MP.

My interface is a Mackie 1640i which is FW 400. I have a FW 400>FW 800 cable, the FW 800 goes into the FW>TB cable, TB into my new MP, and everything works just fine.