At 8:06 PM +0100 8/1/05, D. D. Brierton wrote: >On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:42 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > >> Both should work, and should produce the same performance. All your >> Firewire devices are on the same bus so they will see all the data in >> either case, and there's only one interface on the computer, so the drives >> will have to take turns transferring data. > >Right, that makes sense. > >> The main advantage to using a powered hub (from my perspective having done >> some Firewire development (on MacOS)) is that when somthing bad happens and >> Firewire destroys the Firewire Interface you're hot-plugging something >> into, it will be either the device or the hub that is destroyed, not the >> computer's motherboard. > >Eeek. I hadn't thought anything so dire could happen from simply >transferring data. I think I'll pop out and buy a hub. Do you have any >recommendations? Not from the transfer, but from the hot-plug, or occasionally for no apparent reason. The less often you plug, the less likely the problem is. The more you like Firewire, the more you plug, the more it happens. :( No specific recommendations. Just get a powered hub, as you were planning. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
