[ginop1]

I have a Maxtor Firewire drive. I purchased a LaCie drive yesterday. My other Firewire port is taken up by an iSight. Therefore, I plugged the LaCie drive into the back of the Maxtor. The Lacie icon shows up fine on my desktop. However, the red light on the Maxtor stays lit and the Maxtor icon does not show up on my desktop. Am I right that I should get a Firewire hub instead of plugging the LaCie drive into the Maxtor? I read somewhere that Firewire does not have enough power to accept pass-throughs and thus need a hub. Is that true? By the way, I own a PowerMac G4 500 (Sawtooth).

[slpdLoad]

You can daisy chain bus-powered firewire drives. Does the Maxtor also have an external power supply?

[Macola]

Pass-through seems to be highly dependent on the drive brand and the model of Mac that you have. I had a lot of problems with Maxtor drives in the past, with or without a hub. I also had a Titanium PowerBook rev A that had bad problems with Firewire. Now I use a hub and build my own drives (mostly Oxford chipsets) and so far, so good.