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How does FireWire daisy chaining work between two Macs?

After taking a look at this question Does Thunderbolt support a net topology like FireWire? I was wondering how FireWire works when it's daisy-chained with multiple devices between a Mac on each end ...
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Does daisy chaining FireWire 800 and 400 cause all devices to use 400 speeds?

I recently purchased a Drobo, and in looking over some online documentation, I encountered this support article which states: If a FireWire 400 device is also connected, it will pull down the ...
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VMWare Fusion on Main drive or Firewire 800 drive?

I have been running VMWare Fusion (4.0 now) for a long time, but off the main MacBook Pro hard drive. Will I get faster overall performance of the VM/Mac if I put the VM on an external Firewire 800 ...
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Can 2010 MacBook Pro power 2 daisy chained FW800 external HDs?

I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro (model MacBookPro6,2) with 2.66 gHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB RAM from mid 2010. Right now, I use a LaCie Firewire 800 bus powered Little Big Disk Quadra which works well. ...