But connect it to any thunderboltenabled mac and it becomes a plugandplay hub for everything you do. On the dock itself, i have an ethernet cable connected to a gigabit switch to my lan, firewire connected to my fw400 drive with a daisy chain to my camcorder, a pair of headset connected to the audio out port, one usb 3 port daisy chained to my display usb 3 hub, my ipad and iphone connected to the charging ports, and my seagate portable 1 tb. I have access to all devices in the chain, both thunderbolt and firewire. Features include a highresolution 2560 x 1440pixel ledbacklit display, a facetime hd camera, highquality audio, three usb 2. The manual says the elura 100 has 4pin connector ieee 94 compliant so you probably need a firewire 4pin to 9pin firewire 800 cable to connect it to the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter or any firewire 800 port of a thunderbolt dock. Typically, bus powered firewire drives have only one port so must be the last drive in the chain as there is no passthrough. To be more sepcific, im looking at the art tubefire8 and the presonus firestudio project.
However, your second scarlett interface can be setup in standalone mode, then take the outputs from that device and connect them to extra inputs, if available, on your first scarlett interface. Daisy chain minidv camera to external firewire drive to pc or. Apple clarifies thunderbolt display will not daisy chain. The 18i20 is capable of sending 8 channels via adat. Daisychain firewire devices in target disk mode authored by. You can even plug in another firewire webcam, as i did, and record the same thing from different angles. If your devices are always poweredon, and they all have daisy chain connectors, sure. I have about 108,000 raw files in iphoto and want to transfer them to an asyet unpurchased 4tb drive, freeingup space on the internal 1tb and the existing external 2tb wd my book. Ask different is a question and answer site for power users of apple hardware and software. Ive goten around this buy just filming video with usb compatible cameras, but recently i have been hired to capture video from minidv tapes, which only interface with firewire.
Jan 19, 2010 how to daisy chain multiple firewire devices. How do i daisychain a new 4tb my book to an existing 2tb my book used for mac time machine under mountain lion os. Im going to buy a firewire card to avoid any fw bus problems but for now, would it drop frames and cause trouble. This is great, because it means you can daisy chain firewire devices if you have a mac with only a single firewire port as is the case with the ibooks and many of the powerbooks as well as older powermacs and imacs.
Daisy chain minidv camera to external firewire drive to pc. I know thats a lot of chaining but at the moment those are the devices i have to work with. This item sanoxy firewire dv cable camcorder for canon sony sharp jvc cmple ieee94 firewire ilink dv cable 6p4p mm 10ft, black tripp lite firewire 800 ieee 94b hispeed cable 9pin4pin 6ft. Damn, i remember backintheday when i had to id every device in a daisy chain with scsi. Nov, 2016 now the firewire drive i have has 2 fw ports. To daisychain additional monitors, follow a similar sequence. May 22, 2015 how to daisy chain multiple firewire devices. Jul 11, 2003 this is great, because it means you can daisy chain firewire devices if you have a mac with only a single firewire port as is the case with the ibooks and many of the powerbooks as well as older powermacs and imacs. This tutuorial shows you how to connect or daisy chain multiple external hard drives with fw800 and fw400 connectors. In searching online i found several instances of people saying you could use the external drive daisy chained with firewire between the. At one point the test involved 36 devices connected via thunderbolt, usb 3, and even firewire 800 via thunderbolt docks, including an extensive list of external hard drives plus an apple thunderbolt display, two apple cinema displays, and a 27inch hp led display.
I have a cable that allows me to plug the fw400 directly into the fw 800 port on the computer and it mounts fine when i do that. One feature that is common among firewire devices is the ability to daisy chain. Dec 16, 2009 i dont mind if its the last device on the chain as long as it will work at the end of the chain, since my aperture library is on an external fw hd. Firewire daisy chaining rme fireface to gdrive gearslutz. The term daisy chain may refer either to large scale devices connected in series, such as a series of power strips plugged into each other to form a single long line of strips, or to the wiring patterns embedded inside of devices. I am trying to daisy chain a fw 400 drive to the fw 800 drive but the 400 drive wont mount. Suppose i want to buy two different 8 micpre, firewire based, rack mountable interfaces. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by apple, which called it firewire, in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily sony and panasonic. I was wondering how firewire works when its daisy chained with multiple devices between a mac on each end of the chain. Questions about apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter. You can daisy chain up to five more of these puppies, and theres a 5year warranty should you experience any defects. Hello, i own the in aluminum macbook, which i love, but unfortunately does not have a firewire port. Sanoxy firewire dv cable camcorder for canon sony sharp jvc. In fact, im willing to speculate that you can daisy chain the motu firewire stuff with a pc.
Can i daisychain two focusrite scarlett interfaces. Daisychain firewire devices in target disk mode mac os. Does the firewire bandwidth go down if i daisy chain a firewire 400 device to the firewire 400 port on uad2 satellite. I probably used the wrong wording in saying capture direct to the external drive. Make sure this fits by entering your model number ieee 94 fully compliant and compatible with proposal 94a supports ieee 94 transfer rates of 100200400 mbits fully firewire and i. After going from the thunderbolt to firewire adapter and then a firewire 800 cable to 400 to the isight, the video was about 5 frames per second or worse.
We connected 36 drives 19 thunderbolt, 15 usb, 2 firewire 800. Daisy chain camcorderexternal hard d apple community. Canons eos rebel sl3 eos 250d is the latest in the companys line of diminutive dslrs. Daisy chain firewire devices in target disk mode authored by. Ieee 94 is an interface standard for a serial bus for highspeed communications and isochronous realtime data transfer. Any mac with open pci and later expansion slots can get a firewire card for that slot. Macworld named the test the mac pro daisy chain challenge and was able to connect a total of 42 peripheral devices to the mac pro. Theres also a jack for an external power source, which could be. Apple 27 thunderbolt cinema display led monitor mac city. Depending on what computer you have, there are ways to create a second separate firewire bus.
Can i daisy chain thunderbolt to firewire 800 to firewire 400. Daisy chain camcorder external hard drive firewirepowerbook. This tutorial shows you how to connect or daisy chain multiple external hard drives and a digital audio interface with firewire 800 and firewire 400. Im led to believe that it can be done, and be done between a few devices with two computers. I dont mind if its the last device on the chain as long as it will work at the end of the chain, since my aperture library is on an external fw hd. Other than a full, single loop, systems which contain internal loops cannot be called daisy chains. There are some fw devices especially things that are not hard drives like my scanner, and my isight camera that only have one connector. Click here to see a higherresolution version of the above photo. With just one cable, connect any thunderboltenabled mac and get 27 inches of highresolution screen space, highquality audio, a facetime hd camera, firewire 800 and gigabit ethernet ports and a thunderbolt port you can use to daisychain additional highperformance peripherals such as hard drives and video capture devices. The first monitor must support enabling or turning on mst or dp 1. But where you place devices in a thunderbolt daisychain is important. After taking a look at this question does thunderbolt support a net topology like firewire. The firei camera sports two firewire ports, one on either side.
Want to get the most out of your external hard drives. Jul 12, 2014 not long ago, macworld put the new mac pro to the test on the front of connectivity and external drive performance. Jan 09, 2020 you can daisy chain up to five more of these puppies, and theres a 5year warranty should you experience any defects. Apple clarifies thunderbolt display will not daisy chain cinema display.
Since firewire is essentially dead and obsolete, i made this video both as a eulogy to a great data bus and also to show my solution of how i. Individual devices, such as the cdrw and the vst do not talk to each other or pass on communication to another device. Is there a way to daisy chain external firewire drives together. Macworld lab came up with the mac pro daisy chain challenge. Daisychain firewire devices in target disk mode mac os x hints.
In electrical and electronic engineering, a daisy chain is a wiring scheme in which multiple devices are wired together in sequence or in a ring, similar to a garland of daisy flowers. Is there a thunderbolt hub with say 5 thunderbolt ports to get around this. With the mac pro, you have 4 bays for drives and theyre super easy to swap out. How to daisy chain new video linked hit play for link. To put this in perspective, the 2big offers speeds up to three times firewire 800. Apr 28, 2014 macworld named the test the mac pro daisy chain challenge and was able to connect a total of 42 peripheral devices to the mac pro. Firewire wasnt designed for that for sure that motus firewire units are designed for that, since ive done it many times, and its in the design specs of the units. The 2012 macbook air can daisy chain two thunderbolt monitors, but the 2011 cant.
It also works at the end of a firewire daisy chain, as long as the port is. Daisy chain thunderbolt drives with 1 thunderbolt port. Most of these have two firewire ports, one for the computer and one for daisy chaning. How does one daisy chain the thunderbolt drives if they come with only one thunderbolt port. My mac mini has firewire 800 which converts to firewire 400 with a simple adapter. Apple 27 thunderbolt cinema display led monitor mac. Windows 10 might not immediately recognize your daisychained monitors.
Also, will daisy chain slow down the file copy process or even slow down my computer. I would like to dasiy chain these into a dedicated firewire card in my computer. Damn, i remember backintheday when i had to id every device in a daisychain with scsi. I have actually connected an isight camera to a new macbook pro and the results were pretty poor. It connects using firewire 400, not usb, so the ideal buyer at this point is a mac user with a mac that still has a real firewire port. Is it okay to send firewire 800 from the fireface to the firewire 800 port on the external drive if. Firewire is a serial hubbased architecture and you must have each device connected to a powered hub. This rendered all the the devices after it on the chain unusable for just a. Mar 04, 2002 the firei camera sports two firewire ports, one on either side. When i had a number of firewire 400 devices daisychained, id occasionally need to use one of the devices elsewhere physically, and would need to remove it from the chain. Best thunderbolt raid systems for imac pro of 2020.
Firewire is miles better but devices besides hds are hard to come by. Or, it might recognize your displays in an erroneous configuration for. Best thunderbolt raid systems for imac pro of 2020 imore. Place your first firewire 400 cable and device at the end of the chain of firewire 800 capable devices. This is why the mac pro is currently the best choice for anything large or beyond the imacs ability. Macworld appears to have demonstrated that you can indeed daisy chain a mini displayport monitor as long as it is connected to some other device than the thunderbolt display. Dp displayport mdp minidisplayport mst multistream transport turns on daisy chaining dp 1. So more of those could be daisy chained, but not my thunderbolt drives. Other examples of devices which can be used to form daisy chains are those based on usb, firewire, thunderbolt and. Can i connect isight firewire camera to new laptop. Trying to daisy chain an rme fireface 800 to a external hitachi gdrive to a mac mini and the fireface doesnt seem to like this scenario. Win vista 64xp pro7 x867 x64 mac osx snow leopardlion gigabyte motherboardsyba ti firewire xio2200ai7 2600k quad core16 gb ddr iiicustom 2u rackmount4 tb raid all internal sata ii19 samsung hdmi lcd on pivoting vesa 1u mount studio one v1 pro x64 studio one v1 artist studio one v2 artist. Mar 26, 2020 a firewire hub may then be used to expand the number of ieee 94 devices that can be connected to the computer. Firewire cf card reader options canon accessories in.
I am little confused about this whole daisy chaining firewire devices. How many devices can we round up, connect, and use on a single mac pro. How many firewire ports can you have in a daisy chain from one firewire. In searching online i found several instances of people saying you could use the external drive daisy chained with firewire between the minidv camera and the computer. With just one cable, youll get highresolution screen space, highquality audio, a facetime hd camera, firewire 800, and gigabit ethernet portsand a thunderbolt port you can use to daisychain additional highperformance peripherals such as hard drives and video capture devices. Plug the camera into the hub, plug your daisy chain of disks into the hub, and plug the hub into your computer. Okay, it just dawned on me i have the hardware here to test daisy chaining two firewire devices at the end of the thunderbolt daisy chain and it did work. For example, you have the following setup between two macs running os x normally. I assume that the external drive is still using the disc controller on the pc and it would just save a step from having to move the dv file after capture and then delete off of. Link compatible supports plug and play specificationhot pluggable you dont have to turn off a scanner or cd drive to connect or disconnect it, and you dont need to restart your computer. Conect firewire camera to macbook via external drive.
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