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. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
