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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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What's the fastest connection speed / shortest elapsed time using Migration Assistant?
When using Migration Assistant to move users, files, and folders from an old Mac to a new one, you have a few different choices, depending on the Macs involved. Presuming that both Macs have ...
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USB vs FW400 for iMac G4 external backup drive?
I am setting up an old iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.5.8 as a computer to back things up from my network. I.e. it uses SSHFS to mount network shares and back up their contents (about 120GB) to a ...
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Is there a currently available way to connect firewire to a 2011 MacBook Air besides the Apple Thunderbolt monitor?
If one wanted to connect a firewire peripheral to a 2011 MacBook Air, one could buy Apple's Thunderbolt monitor, connect the monitor to the Air and the peripheral to the monitor. That's kind of ...
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Can I get S.M.A.R.T. support on external hard drives?
Disk Utility reports the S.M.A.R.T. Status as not verified for external disks, and by default Mac OS X only seems able to access S.M.A.R.T. information on internal hard drives.
Is there a way to get ...
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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 Thunderbolt support a net topology like FireWire?
Does Thunderbolt support the same kind of network architecture that FireWire does?
If you have a Mac with two FireWire ports, you can daisy-chain FireWire devices in a loop with the Mac at both ends ...
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Do the FireWire ports on the new MacBook Pros use 4-pin or 9-pin connectors?
I've ordered a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2.3 ghz), to replace my aging and breaking-down iMac G5. I'll need to run a FireWire cable from an audio interface (also on order, that has a 6-pin connector) to ...
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How dangerous is it to hot-plug FireWire 400 devices?
I've had my MacBook since 2006 and, on the odd occasion, I've used the FireWire 400 port for connecting an HDD caddy or for networking between two Macs. I've always hot-swapped devices without a ...
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What devices is the iPod to Firewire 400 adapter meant for, and for what purpose?
I have this adapter:
Is it completely useless? I'm not quite sure what it is. I've had it for years.
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iMac - Airport 'Looking for networks' affects FireWire audio device
This problem has been driving me mad for months and started when I upgraded to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard on my iMac.
I've got a Saffire 56 external audio device connected via FireWire (works ...
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Broken PowerBook G4
My PowerBook G4 is broken and has been for a couple of months now. I owned it while it was working for about 1 and a half years. When it broke originally, I was restarting it after changing the boot ...
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Why do external hard drives run so hot while mounted and idle on a Macbook Pro?
When my external drives are mounted and idle on a Macbook Pro, they run hot. Why? I do not have the same experience with NTFS volumes on my Windows box, where's the difference in idle disk usage?
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Firewire cable disconnected during Migration; process interrupted
this is my first post here but it seems like a helpful place. I got a used 2010 MacBook pro last weekend, and have had a hell of a time trying to transfer data from my older MBP via Migration ...
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iMac-to-iMac Migration was interrupted; Now, source iMac is reading as 0.0GB
I attempted twice to migrate my iMac (2006) to my iMac (2009), first via wireless and second via LAN. The connection was interrupted both times, but the second time left it unable to 'resume from ...
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FW400 HDD not recognized at all
I have an external hard drive in an enclosure that plugs into the firewire port of a Mac Pro, and it is not recognized. I connect the device to the firewire port, and this is what it shows:
Any ...
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How to prevent Finder windows from automatically popping up when I attach a disk?
I have a removable Firewire drive. It has several partitions, many of which have Mac OS installers on them (I'm a developer/sysadmin, and need to reinstall fairly frequently). However, I also use ...
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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. ...
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How to tell a macmini to stop booting to Windows from a macbook pro?
I need to be able to control a mac mini without a screen and I think using screensharing would be enough. I've enabled screensharing, setup a manual IP address and I have an ethernet cable.
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't install OS after hard drive failure
A few weeks ago I got the typical signs of drive failure so I got Scannerz and tested it (http://www.scsc-online.com/Scannerz.html) and the drive was certainly full of bad sectors so I decided to ...
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Mount 'target' machine over Firewire (Possible to bypass DMA after 10.7.2?)
Is it possible to mount/read data from a hdd over firewire that is not booted into 'target' mode?
My scenario
cMBP 1
cMBP 2 (target) this machine is fully encrypted without a efi password.
I know ...
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Export from iMovie 11 to DV camcorder
I'd like to export material via firewire to a DV camcorder from iMovie, but it seems this feature was dropped from iMovie long ago.
What's a good alternative?
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is it possible to boot from another Macs Recovery Partition via Target Disk Mode?
Is it possible to boot a Mountain Lion compatible Mac, Mac 1 from another Mac Running Mountain Lion Mac 2's using the hidden recovery partition on Mac 2?
Mac 1 running 10.7
Mac 2 running 10.8
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