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.
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