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05-28-2008, 12:35 PM
I have a Mac Mini with a single firewire port. That was fine for a while with just the iSight webcamera. Now, in addition I have a Western Digital external harddrive that I want to use for Time Machine, so have a need for a firewire hub. I tried the Belkin AC-powered 6 port hub http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=193393 which would work for a while, but would stop working every so often. A power off and on of the Mac Mini was required to revive it. I got a replacement but it was no better. Belkin customer support were useless in answering power output per port. So, I returned it. I'm guessing the hub is under powered to support both the camera and the external harddrive. Does anyone has good experience with a particular brand of firewire hubs? Cheers, Marc |
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05-28-2008, 02:56 PM
I have a Trendnet hub. It has 4 USB and 3 Firewire ports. I have every port in use. I also have firewire drives daisy chained and on the end of chain I have my HD video camera for importing. Never have had any problems. http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop...=07-57233184-2 |
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05-28-2008, 02:57 PM
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05-28-2008, 03:17 PM
Thanks for the responses. Do either of you have anything as power hungry as an external harddrive through the firewire hub? I doubt it was a bad unit, the replacement one I got had the same behaviour. Cheers, Marc |
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05-28-2008, 03:54 PM
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Power shouldn't be an issue - it is a powered hub. Dumb question, but I have to ask: you do have it plugged in, don't you? My Macs: iMac 27" 3.4 GHz, Mac Pro 3.2 GHz, PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5 GHz, G4 Cube with 1.2 GHz Upgrade My iStuff: 64GB iPhone 5, 64GB iPad4, 30GB iPod Video, 16GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS 9.2.2, openSUSE 10.3 I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007 |
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05-28-2008, 05:13 PM
It would work for a while, then crap out. Power off and on the mac mini and all comes back to life for a while. Interesting to hear you (mac57) have exactly the setup I'm looking for....maybe a bad batch? I'll look into the trendnet hub also. Thanks again for the responses. Cheers, Marc |
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