Guy At Apple Store Told Me I Can Piggy Back Firewire Devices, The Audio Interface And The External Hardrive..., is this true ? Options

[etadaepar]

Yea i was going to buy the imac but they don't make one with 2 firewire ports one for my audio interface and the other for the audio drive so I don't have to record to my system drive, so i was asking about that and the guy says that's not an issue because firewire devices ckan be "piggy-backed" he said I can do it with the interface/soundcard and the external HD and record onto the hard drive from the audio interface still going through the apple software...?


thanks

This post has been edited by etadaepar: Wed 10 Jun 2009, 06:16

[ghess]

I also have my audio interface and FW HD on the same Firewire bus. It's not ideal, but it works fine. I would caution you against getting one of the combo FW/USB enclosures though. The chipsets with these often have issues and can lead to dropout. The most reliable chipsets are still made by Oxford. Look for an enclosure with the Oxford 911.