3. Installing Your LaCie Drive
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LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme with Triple Interface
User’s Manual
3.3.3 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
Bigger Disk Extreme with Triple Interface* (this connection is called “daisy-chaining”).
*Some cameras do not support this configuration or may
downgrade the performances of your LaCie Bigger Disk.
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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 on the desktop (Mac users) or under
My Computer
(Windows users).
Important Info:
If your device is not recognized, try
connecting it directly to your computer. For more
information, please see section
6. FireWire Questions & Answers
.
Important Info:
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.
If you will be switching between interfaces, you must also follow the steps in section
3.6. Switching Interfaces
.
