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Old 25th June 2006   #15
ejsongs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SONICA
Hi,

the only time you will need Firewire 800 is when using more than one Fireface 800.
When using one Fireface it will not use more than Firewire 400.

What you have to worry about is using a hard disk and the Fireface 800 on the same Firewire bus.

If possible run the Fireface 800 and the hard disk on two different Firewire controllers.


Best regards,

Guy Cefalu

Sonica Audio Labs




not sure if this is true for 2 reasons:

1. on my 2.0 g5 i have 5-7 firewire 400 drives connected at the same time as my fireface 800. the trick to getting it work is that the ff800 has to be turned on first in order to grab the bus first.

2. on g5 (at least the older ones) the 800 and 400 bus are the same.

ej
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