3. Installing Your LaCie Drive
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LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface
User’s Manual
3.3 Connecting Digital Video Cameras To The LaCie Drive
With both FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 interfaces, it is possible to connect a digital video camera directly to the LaCie Big
Disk Extreme with Triple Interface* (this connection is called “daisy-chaining”).
Important Info:
You can not have the FireWire and USB interfaces connected at the same time! If you will be
switching between interfaces, you must also follow the steps in section
3.6. Switching Interfaces
.
Tech Note:
To daisy-chain devices, you must be using the same interface (FireWire). Your computer will not
recognize the daisy-chained device if the interfaces are mixed, i.e. a FireWire device attached to a drive that is
connected to the computer via the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface.
Daisy-chain configurations:
• FireWire 400 device connected directly to the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface, which is connected
to the computer via the FireWire 800 port.
• iLink/DV device connected directly to the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface, which is connected to
the computer via the FireWire 800 port.
• FireWire 800 device connected directly to the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface, which is connected
to the computer via the FireWire 800 port.
Follow the steps in either
Windows 2000/Windows XP – FireWire 800
or
Mac OS 10.x – FireWire 800
to connect
the LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface to the FireWire 800 interface.
Tech Note:
If you do not have FireWire 800
capability on your computer, there are two
options to be able to use the daisy-chaining
functionality: 1) add a FireWire 800 PCI or PC
Card to your computer (see section
5.3.
Optimizing Data Transfers
for more information);
2) purchase a FireWire 800 9-pin-to-6-pin
interface cable, which you can use to attach to the
FireWire 800 port of your LaCie drive and a
FireWire 400 port on your computer.
Using the iLink/DV cable, connect the 4-pin end
of the cable to the 4-pin port on your digital camera.
Connect the 6-pin end of the iLink/DV cable to the 6-
pin FireWire port on the back of the LaCie Hard
Drive.
The digital camera should now appear under
My Computer
(Windows users) or on the desktop (Mac users).
*Some cameras do not support this configuration or may downgrade the performances of your LaCie Big Disk.
Tech Note:
When a FireWire
800 device is daisy-chained
to a FireWire 400 device,
which is then connected to
the computer via either a
FireWire 400 or FireWire
800 port, the FireWire 800
device will operate at
FireWire 400 speeds.
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