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IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and my Ti Book
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Hello all you super smart Mac gurus out there... I have a question about an external drive I want to add. But I wanted to make sure it will work. I know Firewire has changed recently, as far as speeds, or am I wrong on this. Any help would be great.
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as long as the hard drive you're getting doesn't say that it's "Firewire800", you'll be fine
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Well, FireWire 800 is backwards-compatible, so it will work on a TiBook, but you won't get any benefit, and it'll cost more.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Well, FireWire 800 is backwards-compatible, so it will work on a TiBook, but you won't get any benefit, and it'll cost more.
tooki
Different shaped plug. Though most Firewire 800 drives ship with a 400 port as well, you can't go direct from an 800 out to a 400 in on the compy.
But yes, you just want Firewire 400.
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Originally posted by chris v:
Different shaped plug.
Yes, but the important thing to note is that it's backward compatible. You'd just use a FW800 to FW400 cable. It's not incompatible.
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by chris v:
you can't go direct from an 800 out to a 400 in on the compy.
Sure you can, just use the correct cable or plug adapter, as new newton said. You just won't get FireWire 800 speeds that way.
yooki
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