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Does it make sense to still use firewire?
I have firewire in production still and you can usually get excellent performance / $ by buying older technology.
The latency of FireWire is excellent - on par with Thunderbolt
The bandwidth of ...
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ThunderBolt 3 to Firewire 800?
Buy a drive caddy for $22.00 (USB3).
Take all your old Firewire drives apart pull each disk out, and slip them into your modern caddy. Plug the caddy into USB and pull your data off as needed.
Don't ...
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External iSight microphone audio not working
The FireWire iSight audio driver has been omitted from recent macOS releases.
A Mac Rumors contributor has posted a download of the driver from his backup.
Download iSightAudio.driver there, or find ...
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Can I attach a Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter and a Mini DisplayPort monitor to the same computer?
You need a Thunderbolt Dock with a Firewire port
Thunderbolt is not like video or USB where you can get an inexpensive splitter and just multiply or split the signals. So, to use two devices ...
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FireWire to Thunderbolt Adapter
You can use a DisplayLink adapter to connect another monitor via USB; see here for the varieties available.
The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter only works in that direction; it will not convert ...
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Time Machine Backup via another Mac?
Target disk mode turns your Mac with broken USB into a fancy hard drive.
You can do anything with that data that you could with any working hard drive. You could copy files from or to it, you could ...
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How to update external iSight firmware?
Apple released an iSight Updater software package, which is still available online:
iSight Updater 1.0.3
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL502
The problem is that the software download requires Mac OS ...
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Please help: Win7 on external FireWire drive results in "No bootable device - insert boot disk..." error
The answer is NO. I you are reading somewhere else that this is possible, then either you are being lied to or the instructions are for a different model Mac.
2009 Macs need to BIOS boot Windows. The ...
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External iSight microphone audio not working
Everything points to the microphone (audio circuitry) having died.
It's a man-made device and they fail. What you're seeing is that the device itself is being recognized on the Firewire bus, but ...
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Installing OSX onto PPC using Intel Mac and Firewire
There has to be a typo in the OPs question that can only be corrected by the OP:
The error message "10.3 cannot be installed on this machine" is out of place there.
To install OS X (maxing out at OS ...
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ThunderBolt 3 to Firewire 800?
Slightly different -- but the title makes this question comes up in Google for audio gear as well: if you have Firewire gear you can't convert and want to connect, OWC has a Thunderbolt 3 dock with a ...
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Does macOS 11 Big Sur support FireWire?
FireWire support, in general, has not been removed from macOS Big Sur or Apple Silicon.
This video demonstrates daisy-chaining 3 FireWire peripherals to an M1 MacBook Pro running macOS 11 Big Sur:
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External iSight camera with M1 Mac?
I too get the same results as you are getting. Works on my 2017 27" iMac but no audio.
This video indicates that the iSight camera needs to be updated to Firmware 1.0.3 for the audio to work ...
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Need to download iMovie '09 on MacBook Pro 16" with iMovie 10
I found a tutorial on how to extract the older iMovie 09 onto the same Mac as v10 & have both capable of running (I doubt it will work on Catalina or later, but I haven't tested)
Download the ...
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iMovie does not see my Mini DV tapes
The general consensus is that any operating systems after Mojave break compatibility with Mini DV or they're not as reliable as older versions of Mac OS. LifeFlix is in active development, and it even ...
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ThunderBolt 3 to Firewire 800?
Just take the drives out of their enclosures. They're going to be standard SATA Drives on the inside. You can then just put it into a Thunderbolt or USB 2/3/C enclosure (~$25 online).
Oops, didn't ...
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Target Disc Mode from 2009 Mac mini to 2019 iMac
You should be able to connect the two machines directly with an Ethernet cable (if you do not have cabling already) and then enable file sharing on one machine, and locate that machine on the other so ...
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How do I connect a Macbook early 2011 to a Sony trv 340 via Firewire
Assuming that your machine is indeed a MacBook Pro 2011, you need a Firewire 800 (9-pin) to MiniDV (4-pin Firewire or i.Link in Sony speak) cable. Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/FireWire-...
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How to connect an iMac 2011 to an HDMI laptop?
Apple's Target Display Mode page reads as if iMacs from 2009-2014 can be used as external displays for laptops, but not the other way around.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
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How to connect an iMac 2011 to an HDMI laptop?
Mactracker (backed up by Apple's specs here) indicates that the Thunderbolt port is also a video output:
Thunderbolt: 1 - Thunderbolt 1 (up to 10 Gbps)
Display: Thunderbolt digital video output ...
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Please help: Win7 on external FireWire drive results in "No bootable device - insert boot disk..." error
While you can boot from external media, Windows itself cannot (in most cases). One way to overcome this is using an up to date version of Windows with Windows-to-Go support and a fast USB-based drive (...
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Can Firewire 800 network interfaces be bonded?
So decided to test this with an extra workstation. I was able to assign static IP addresses to both FireWire ports (the first port was active right off the bat, but I had to add the 2nd one). Both ...
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Diff over large subdirectories fails
For a week I've tested a recommended solution I found at iFixit, when someone encountered an error code -50 on an external HD. It seems to resolve the issue I had. I also came across error code -50 ...
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Installing Mavericks 10.9.4
You can only download it at all if you have it in your Purchase History on the App Store, & even then you'd get 10.9.5
Other than that, you'd need to find a friend who archives OS versions ...
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Is Thunderbolt on the same bus as FireWire and Ethernet on a late 2012 Mac Mini
After a lightning strike the Mac Mini FireWire and Ethernet ports do
not work.
The Mac mini got hit by lightening and still functions? I am surprised that you only lost two ports
Is it likely ...
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How can I see what ports my hard drives are connected to?
You should be able to find this information in the System Information Utility. Did you try looking under Storage then selecting each of the listed items? On my system running 10.10.5 each of my ...
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Can you boot an internal HDD with OS X as an external drive on another Macbook?
To boot from your HDD:
Get the hardware:
Get a SATA to USB adapter.
Remove the HDD from your 2011 MacBook.
Connect it the 2010 MacBook using the SATA adapter.
Power up the 2011 MacBook and hold the ...
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Direct USB-to-USB networking?
Yes and no. Because of the host-slave relationship USB is built around this requires specific hardware, namely an active cable with electronics. They're cheap enough though, you can get them on Amazon ...
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