mac Mini FireWire Question
I have a nice 16X external FireWire DVD burner that I do not want to get rid of and a nice FireWire 400 GB hard drive that houses all of my music. Would it be a bad idea to daisychain both the drive and the DVD-R drive to one FireWire port? I would hate for my hard drive to just stop. Any advice would be great....
[EDIT] Ha! Noticed I named the thread backwards.....should have been Mac mini not mac Mini
[EDIT] Ha! Noticed I named the thread backwards.....should have been Mac mini not mac Mini


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I'm sure a FireWire hub would handle them too.
Switches/hubs are very, very, rarely a good idea on FireWire, that is because of the fundamental differences with USB.
F8ck this hub shite, that's for USB
BTW, I really quite surprised how well this little guy works with just 256MB or RAM. It only really got sluggish while rendering parts of a movie. All my apps seem to run just fine. Web browsing is still way too slow. And that's in Safari and FireFox.
-Scott
Originally posted by scott_r
I just got a Mac Mini yesterday, and started editing some Movies that I did on my older iMac. I had to daisy chain the external drive and the the camera. works just great. So shouldn't be a problem.
BTW, I really quite surprised how well this little guy works with just 256MB or RAM. It only really got sluggish while rendering parts of a movie. All my apps seem to run just fine. Web browsing is still way too slow. And that's in Safari and FireFox.
-Scott
sweet
yeah i use Safari in Tab mode instead of FireFox, just because it is quicker on 256mb systems. Safari has one niggling issue 'the dirty rectangle', eg, get's KILLED when showing all the animated smiley faces on AppleInsider reply page