Connecting fw 800 HD to iMac?

Updating to new iMac. Old iMac had 4 external Lacie HDs daisy chained. Worked just fine. New one will only connect 1 at a time. Anybody run into the same problem? And what did you do?

I had a 3 FW chain with my 2007 iMac and when I upgraded to my 2013 iMac keeping the same chain failed, mounting just the first drive. Disk utility didn't see the other two. I switched the order putting what had been the first drive at the end of the chain and that resolved my problem. Further testing revealed that, for whatever reason, that drive had to be the last in the chain even though its placement doesn't matter when connected to a computer that has a FW port. Go figure.

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