how can you get more firewire inputs?

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I only have one on my Mac Mini and if I want to use a firewire external hard drive and 002 Rack, i need two?

Is that possible?

Thanks
 
Er I don't know, what does that mean exactly? I was wondering the Digi 002 has two firewire inputs. Can I use one of them for the external HD and record straight onto it from the rack with Pro Tools, if there is a possible way of setting that up? Can it even be used like that?
If not what else could I do? :confused:
 
Yeah...you should be able to connect the hard drive to the second firewire port on the digi.

Daisy chaining means hooking up devices directly to each other in a row instead of having each device connected directly to the computer.

Computer <---- Device A <----- Device B <---- Device C <---- etc.....

I'm not sure how many devices you can daisy chain together with firewire, but I think it's more than most people would ever need.
 
Oh yea I see, so If I connected the Mac Mini to the Digi 002, then connect the external hard drive to the 002. It should work fine in a loop? and be able to save me sessions on the HD?
 
I just found this where it looks like the digi 002 should be the last device in the chain....

"Should I hook up my FireWire drives to the second FireWire port on the Digi 002?
No. The second FireWire port on the Digi 002 is NOT intended for external hard drives or other storage devices, as this may result in unexpected behavior. It is recommended that Digi 002 be connected as the last device in the FireWire chain, or be connected to a dedicated FireWire port."

Digi 002 and firewire



So it looks like you would want to hook it up:

Mac <---- Hard Drive <----- Digi 002


Hopefully your hard drive has 2 firewire ports for daisy chaining.
 
Wish14 said:
I just found this where it looks like the digi 002 should be the last device in the chain....

"Should I hook up my FireWire drives to the second FireWire port on the Digi 002?
No. The second FireWire port on the Digi 002 is NOT intended for external hard drives or other storage devices, as this may result in unexpected behavior. It is recommended that Digi 002 be connected as the last device in the FireWire chain, or be connected to a dedicated FireWire port."

Digi 002 and firewire



So it looks like you would want to hook it up:

Mac <---- Hard Drive <----- Digi 002


Hopefully your hard drive has 2 firewire ports for daisy chaining.
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Hmmm that's very interesting, didn't think that would be the case. Well this is the hard drive I was looking at and it seems perfect:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370150890293

Only thing is it has 800 firewire ports, but that shouldn't be a problem should it? I just need an adapter cable right?

Also what is the differences between the 400 and 800 ports, just the transfer speed. Seems like firewire is heading to be the new USB seeing as it's so much faster why isn't everything just firewire?
 
daisy chaining audio interfaces and hard drives is a big no-no
 
altitude909 said:
daisy chaining audio interfaces and hard drives is a big no-no
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Wrong.

If the devices were made and driver'ed properly (some aren't and will tell you not to) then they can work just fine.
Firewire was DESIGNED to daisy-chain high bandwidth audio and video devices.
Testing it out won't hurt anything, so you can just TRY it.

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Running a Motu828mkII >daisy-chained to a Glyph firewire drive< on my 2.8Ghz P4 laptop (a Gateway with built-in TI firewire chips and XP/sp2) and a SeagateUSB2 drive for sample libraries/video editing with ZERO PROBLEMS.
 
Ah..So will it? won't it work? I cant really afford to purchase a nice external hard drive, and 002 rack just to try it to see if it works and if it it doesn't I'd be screwed. Anyone else have any experience with this?

Thanks for you info, but are you sure this can be done? Why exactly is it a no no?
 
its hard to say exactly. You could try to contact the seller and see if they know. The hard drive you linked us to is capable of daisy-chaining but they really only say to daisy chain to another hard drive. That doesnt mean it wont work.

However, another option is this product witch will give you 2 firewire and a bunch more usb and its made for your mac mini:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...28&cm_re=firewire_hubs-_-33-314-028-_-Product

There is always a way to do what you want to with computers. Your only problem is your limited sometimes because its a mac and more so cause its a mac mini. PC's have way more options for usually way cheaper prices.

Even so.... that Belkin hub has some good reviews and belkin makes good products. I have a wireless router by them that works better then any other big name routers ive owned. Im 2 floors away from my g-plus mimo and getting 4 bars.

Search for firewire hubs if you dont like the mac mini one but I think thats the way to go.
 
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ThaArtist said:
its hard to say exactly. You could try to contact the seller and see if they know. The hard drive you linked us to is capable of daisy-chaining but they really only say to daisy chain to another hard drive. That doesnt mean it wont work.

However, another option is this product witch will give you 2 firewire and a bunch more usb and its made for your mac mini:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...28&cm_re=firewire_hubs-_-33-314-028-_-Product

There is always a way to do what you want to with computers. Your only problem is your limited sometimes because its a mac and more so cause its a mac mini. PC's have way more options for usually way cheaper prices.

Even so.... that Belkin hub has some good reviews and belkin makes good products. I have a wireless router by them that works better then any other big name routers ive owned. Im 2 floors away from my g-plus mimo and getting 4 bars.

Search for firewire hubs if you dont like the mac mini one but I think thats the way to go.
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Hmm that's very interesting, so if I plugged that in via firewire to the mac mini? then connected the 002 and external HD to the hub? that should work alright?

There seems to be three firewire ports? is that right. Though one of them says something that I cant make out and is right next to another input. But it says there are only two. So that still isn't enough?because I assume you would need to connect it to the mac via firewire but then that only leaves you one port left.
 
I assume that the firewire port on the back to right is to connect to the Mac? Then the other two are spares, is that correct? :)
 
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