At 4:27 PM -0700 3/7/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote:
>  > 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.

ah.  Thx!

Will do a bit of testing myself shortly, to see how things go.

- Dan.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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