HT201994: iMac (Late 2009) and iMac (Mid 2010): External features, ports, and connectors

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Wendy136

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Q: Dealing with the lack of Firewire400 ports. . .

I just had to replace my ’06 iMac with a Lion capable iMac. Brought her home this evening. However, the new machine has just one Firewire 800 port and NO FW 400 ports!!!!!

Problem is:

I have 3 external drives;

DiskGo Edge has 2 FW400 ports

Fantom Drive has 2 FW 400 ports

LACIE has one FW 400 and 2 FW800 ports.

Do you think I could daisy chain them through the LACIE? Do I need to contact the individual companies, Apple? Or just put them all together and turn the whole thing on??? If I could daisy chain, I might still use some of my other peripherals. . . . .

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 11, 2012 10:30 PM

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X423424X Jun 11, 2012 11:13 PM in response to Wendy136
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Jun 11, 2012 11:13 PM in response to Wendy136

Just get fw400 to fw800 cables (6pin to 9 pin) to connect the fw400 to your fw800 imac port.

And you should be able to daisy chain them.

Here's all of monoprice.com's firewire cables. 6-pin cables are for fw400 and 9-pin cables are for fw800.

If you already have a bunch of fw400 cables lying around then you can just get a fw800-fw400 adapter instead of a cable.

Moshi 800 to 400 FireWire Adapter
Sonnet FireWire 400 to 800 Adapter (FAD-824)

But the cable is cheaper.
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