Bransin Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I'm running on a Mac Mini that only has 1 firewire port. Since I use my hard drive firewire and I'm looking at buying a firewire 410 interface. Would it be possible to daisy chain from my external hard drive to the interface? The process would like this, Mac Mini > Hard Drive > 410 Interface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briandelizza Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I don't think so, but I may be wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 It's not a good idea, but if you have to I would run it like this: Mac Mini > Interface > External HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rounik Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I've been daisychaining my ext hd and firebox from the same firewire port on my pb. runs like this: PB > firebox > External HD runs great - no prob's in the last 10 months or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpein Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I have more experience cutting video than sound, but I don't see any reason that daisy-chaining on firewire should be a problem. My DV cutting setup has two drives chained through my deck to my desktop machine, very rarely have i/o problems on capture, multi-track playback, or dump to tape. When a problem does pop up, it generally just requires a reset of the chain. You'd have to be mixing tons of audio tracks to catch up to the throughput of 6 or 8 video tracks, even DV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Definitely go computer-->Interface-->Harddrive. One firewire bus doesn't like to share signal with another bus at the same time because they will be fighting each other for being the primary bus. I've experienced that myself even with the iSight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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