On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote:

>
> hey,
>
> Can you mix different speed devices on a firewire chain, 400 and 800?
> Does the whole chain fall to the slower speed or ?

Found this online, the results of an empirical test:

"Summary: mixing FW400 and FW800 devices only limits the speed of the
FW800 devices if the data has to travel through a device or cable which
uses FW400, at least for well designed Firewire devices."

<http://tinyurl.com/djonor>

I've also seen people say very authoritatively, but entirely without  
citation that mixing them pulls you down to FW400 speed.

-- 
Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai,  PhD


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