I believe that there are 4 pin and 6 pin Firewire connectors. I think that the 4 pin connectors do not carry power, whereas the 6 pin connectors do carry power.
You need a 6-pin to 6-pin cable. I hope that other folks, who are more certain of these facts, will confirm or refute what i have written. Terminators are not needed for Firewire. R.A. Cantrell wrote: > ... more than one kind of firewire connector. I started to > plug my new firewire external cd box into my iMac, and got out the firewire > cord that came with the iMac, and one end of it is a little square, whereas > the ports in the iMac and in the cd (QUE) box are the same (as the ports on > the iMac). The QUe box has two of these ports. Does this mean that firewire > stuff "chains" like SCSI? Or do I (zounds I hope not) need some sort of > terminator? -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
