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Fire Wire External HD

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cgkrick

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Oct 12, 2005
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I'm thinking about increasing my puny 20 Gig hard drive with a fire wire external HD.

My problem is that we do stop motion animation on the system and keep a video camera hooked up to our Mac G4 through the fire wire port all the time.

Do I have to add another fire wire port, can I multiplex the existing port, or is there a better solution.

Regards,

Chuck
 
kgarner

kgarner

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Jan 28, 2004
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you should be able to daisy chain the camera to the drive. I have done that with my MiniDV > Ext HD > Ext HD > Mac.
 
atari1356

atari1356

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Feb 27, 2004
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kgarner said:
you should be able to daisy chain the camera to the drive. I have done that with my MiniDV > Ext HD > Ext HD > Mac.
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I've done this before too, and it's worked fine. So you shouldn't need any extra port... just make sure your external hard drive has at least 2 firewire ports (probably almost all of them do).
 
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