Easily answered firewire hub question

[Mark]

No, my hardrive works fine.

No, OS X didn't mysteriously crash.

No, I don't need help with buggy software.

I love my 15" Powerbook and it works just fine, thank you.

So, beleagured, noble tech support folks here can rest easy.

My problem is that now that I've accumulated a mass of firewire
devices (digital camcorder, ipod, isight, external hard drive), I've
found it necessary to purchase a firewire hub. So, I went down to
Compusa and plunked down my $70 for a Belking 4 port hub.

Well, despite my annoyance that it really isn't a 4 port hub since
only three of the ports can actually have devices plugged into
them(!), it is a great improvement over my former single firewire
port. Which brings me to my question...

Is it necessary to send power to the hub directly using the included
adapter? I would have thought that the hub could get juice from my
always plugged in powerbook. Space on my surge protector is at a
premium, so I was wondering what the real story on firewire hub power
is.

Hopefully, that was an easy enough question.

[Jim Hill]

Mark wrote:

>I've
>found it necessary to purchase a firewire hub. So, I went down to
>Compusa and plunked down my $70 for a Belking 4 port hub.

Damn, dude. I just got home from Santa Fe about 20 minutes ago with a
6-port Belkin for $50 from Best Buy.

>Well, despite my annoyance that it really isn't a 4 port hub since
>only three of the ports can actually have devices plugged into
>them(!)

Yeah, that occurred to me, too, modulo six/five.

I can't answer your question, though.


Jim
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