If your disks are Firewire as your post suggests then do they have both
in and out firewire sockets on them?  I have a couple of Firewire HDs
(Maxtor) which have two connectors allowing daisy-chaining.

Or you could get a firewire hub. You can get a hub for <$50, which isn't bad and would let you have your disks all online at once.

If I were doing that, I'd want the drives to have their own power supply (as opposed to being bus powered) and hook them up with power-isolated firewire cables. I've personally never had problems with bus-powered firewire devices, but I've certainly read of quite a few people who have.

Alternatively attaching them all directly to a powered hub would be a decent second choice.

Kevin
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Kevin O. Lepard

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