FireWire 400 Cable help

Rhobes

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Jan 5, 2006

• #1

Hello-

How many pins on my 400 firewire on the back of my iMac, see iMac specs below. I can count 6 copper bands on my new Maxtor external drive but can't really see what to count on the iMac.....

 

iPhil

macrumors 68040

• Jan 5, 2006

• #2

Rhobes said:

Hello-

How many pins on my 400 firewire on the back of my iMac, see iMac specs below.

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Its a 6 pin firewire connection that iMac

 

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haiggy

macrumors 65816

• Jan 5, 2006

• #3

iphil said:

Its a 6 pin firewire connection that iMac

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He's correct. And most firewire cables are 6 pin

 

iPhil

macrumors 68040

• Jan 5, 2006

• #4

If your external hard drive has a 9 pin connection it WON'T run @ 800 mps rate it'll run @ 400 mps because the iMac has a Firewire 400 aka 1394a port..

To get 800 mps rate you need a firewire 800 card aka 1394b card and cable, external case thats capable of that transfer speed..

Like this:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10723


if you like small size of external storage, the WxHxD size





(mps = megabits per second)