Hi Merv, As far as I know, you don't need the firewire port on the drive to be FW400 - FW 800 is backward compatible.
All you need is a FW400 to FW800 cable, depending on the drive you buy it may even be thrown in. When FW800 drives first came out, they tended to ship with both fw800 & fw400 ports (the first I bought was like this) - but then they just started shipping with fw800 ports and some suppliers threw in both fw800 cables and fw800 to fw400 cables (that's what I got with my second fw800 drive). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/4/12 10:15 AM, Merv Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Hi Ronni and James Thank you for your responses and your ten step process > Ronni. If possible I will now purchase a HD with a firewire 400 > port. Regards Merv -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
