Ibook G3 Dillema: Firewire Interface W/firewire Hd, FW410, one FW port Options

[asfdzxxc]

M-audio says not to run a fw HD thru the same port it's connected to, so a FW hd is out of the question unless it does work in practice. Are there any other solutions?

[dixiechicken]

You can try to run it anyway to se what happens.

According to MOTU there is not "per se" any such restrictions in their hardware.

Firewire Drives and MOTU 828/896
Assuming a FW drive has acceptable multimedia spec, there's no reason why you couldn't use it as a record and playback destination for digital audio. 7200 RPMS is the spec to look for in Firewire drives. Glyph makes high end audio drives, and we've also tested VST smart disk HDs.<br><br>The 896 provides a "passthru" for daisy chaining a firewire HD. If you have an 828 you can daisy chain it to the HD (if the HD has a passthu)... or you can use a powered firewire hub. NOTE: G4s with firewire 800 have problems using FW audio interfaces and FW hard drives at the same time. To run both on these machines you'd need to add a PCI firewire card wtih a TI or Luncet chip and run the MOTU audio interfaces off of that card and the hard drives off of the internal firewire ports (or vice versa).

Above quote is from Motu:s techsupport docs.

Cheers: Dixiechicken