3. Installing Your LaCie Drive
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LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme with Triple Interface
User’s Manual
3.3. Installing Multiple Devices
3.3.1. FireWire
You can connect your drive to a computer via the FireWire 800, FireWire 400
and iLink/DV interfaces (you must use only one interface at a time). The
FireWire interface standard allows for the connection of up to 63 devices on the
bus (called daisy-chaining), with a maximum of 16 devices on one branch. For
reliable performance, LaCie does not recommend daisy-chaining more than 4
FireWire devices one after the other; instead use several FireWire cards/ports directly from the computer.
When you connect the LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme with Triple Interface to the computer via the FireWire 800 cable, you can
chain one device from the second FireWire 800 port, and one via the FireWire 400 port.
When you connect the LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme with Triple Interface to the computer via the FireWire 400 cable, you can
chain devices from the remaining FireWire 800 ports.
Important Info:
All speeds revert to FireWire 400 when a FireWire 400 device is the origin of a chain and
when it is connected as a daisy-chained device via the FireWire 800 9/6-pin cable.
A FireWire 800 device operates at FireWire 800 speeds only when it is chained to a FireWire 800 device.
Optimal performance for FireWire 800 requires that equipped devices be connected directly to a FireWire 800
port on the computer.
Tech Note:
For more information about
FireWire and improving performance,
please see sections:
•
2.3.1. FireWire Cables And Connectors
•
5.3. Optimizing Data Transfers
•
6. FireWire Questions & Answers
LaCie Bigger Disk - FireWire Connectivity Options
ilink/DV 6/4-pin cable
FireWire 400 6/6-pin cable
FireWire 800 9/6-pin cable*
FireWire 800 9/4-pin cable*
FireWire 800 9/9-pin cable
FireWire 400
To Computer
FireWire 800
To Computer
*FireWire 800 9/6-pin and 9/4-pin cables are sold separately.
