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07-07-2008, 08:25 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Queensland
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Firewire800 extension cable ??
Hey guys, does a Firewire 800 extension cable exist ?? Reason im asking is because ive just purchased an external hard drive for Time Machine and want to position the external hard drive a bit further away from my mac....
Who would best have this ? Tandy ? Dick Smith ?
Thanks
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07-07-2008, 08:28 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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I'm sure they exist but finding one will be difficult I'd imagine.
I think in this case, you're limited by the length of the cable supplied by the external, I'm afraid.
Unless you are prepared to make some DIY extension cables (not recommended).
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07-07-2008, 08:31 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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I am sure you could get it from a place like Next Byte.
IEEE 1394 interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
States you can have up to 100metres in length. Where you would find that length I don't know. How far do you want your HD, and may I ask why? |
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07-07-2008, 08:35 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Queensland
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Thanks for the quick replies guys....
Sebastian.... about a metre away, its just due to the kind of setup I have at the moment, im very limited in terms of space, I need to get a nice full sized desk, but theres no bloody room haha 
I'll ring around tommorow and see what I can find ?
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07-07-2008, 08:46 PM
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Banned for MacTalk'ing at school
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Buy a longer cable?
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07-07-2008, 08:58 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Queensland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Simo
Buy a longer cable?
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Yep, will do that instead, in fact won't even bother trying to find an extension cable, I need about 2metres or so.....
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07-07-2008, 10:32 PM
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Group: Administrators
Location: Fukuoka, Japan (originally Canberra)
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In practical terms, with a single standard cable, you can only go up to 5m. Plenty of 2m cables about though.
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08-07-2008, 01:27 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Try to keep it under 5 metres. As with all electronic signals they degrade over distance. With FW 800 due to its speed the shorter the better. But under 5 metres you wouldn't notice anything.
However going up to 50 metres or so you would.
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08-07-2008, 01:30 PM
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Group: Banned Users
Location: Melbourne
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Originally Posted by Sebastianmonty
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You can only do 100m runs using FW/Optical (as a standard) or over ethernet using a Gefen box. |
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08-07-2008, 01:40 PM
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MacTalk Podcaster
Group: Regulars
Location: With a Wine glass in hand
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch H
Try to keep it under 5 metres. As with all electronic signals they degrade over distance. With FW 800 due to its speed the shorter the better. But under 5 metres you wouldn't notice anything.
However going up to 50 metres or so you would.
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Standard FW has maximum cable length of 4.5 metres before requiring a device or repeater... the FW800 connector and cable used by Apple will not go 100 metres, that's for different stuff not currently used by Apple. |
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08-07-2008, 09:29 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Queensland
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Thanks guys for all your feedback, in the end ive decided to return the hard drive in place of a 500GB Time Capsule instead, couldnt resist the Apple-ness 
And don't wanna stuff around with cables....
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08-07-2008, 09:33 PM
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Group: Member
Location: Perth, WA
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Firewire cables
Streetwise sell a whole buch of different fire wire cables.....
Streetwise: FireWire Cables
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