Interface to connect FireWire via Thunderbolt?
Background: I love my 2007 Macbook pecause of the FireWire Interfaces and expresscard slot. I use my MBP as my DAW and hook up my external drive to the FW800 interface and my Presonus audio interface via FW400 via the expresscard clot. The reason I do not use the FW400 interface in the MBP for the Presonus is that the onboard FW800 and FW400 share the same hardware interface causing problems. Presonus has advised me that I cannot do this. the expresscard solution works perfectly.
Unfortunately, my MBP is 'dying'. The optical drive has failed. the keyboard no longer works well, and the laptop is too slow for my DAW needs.
I have been eyeing the 2011 iMac's and the only reason I haven't taken the plunge is that it has only 1 FW800 interface. Yes, I can daisy chain my external drive with the Presonus, but only if the drive is the last device on the chain, meaning that it will only perform at FW800 speeds, the Presonus being a FW400 device.
My question is this: Is there any way I can book up the FW800 drive or the Presonus to the Thunderbolt interface via some kind of 'converter'?
its just announced in september, so we waiting for it like you and i think our "chinees brothers" can make something like this
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Hello,
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I was wondering if a function like this exists. If not, apple please look in to it. I hate restarting my macbook or imac for file transfer via thunderbolt...
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I have two MacBook Airs and I am wondering if I can connect them via thunderbolt cable to copy files from one to the other using thunderbolts speed advantage. Both are SSD equipped.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725?locale=en_US
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I'd check to see if the problem returns when you plug the camera back into the second port, or if the drive works in the original port when the camera is not connected.
Edit: Maybe you unplugged the problem, when you unplugged the camera?
Message was edited by: dechamp -
HT5219 can i connect my dv camera to my new imac via thunderbolt firewire adaptor
can i connect my dv camera to my new imac via thunderbolt firewire adaptor
If FW is the only connection the camera has then yes Thunderbolt Firewire adapter is correct. It's available from a number of sources including Apples own online store, in the USA the link would be:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapte r -
Daisy chain two external drives via Firewire, then connect one via USB to the TC?
Hi,
I have two external drives that have both Firewire and USB ports. My 1st generation 500 gb Time Capsule (maybe all of them?) only has USB ports so up til now, I have connected one or the other drive via USB. (I've tried to connect both to a powered USB hub but one drive has problems showing up. At this point I only use the one drive that shows up and connect it directly with no hub to the Time Capsue.)
My question is: Can I daisy chain the two drives via Firewire and then connect one of them (probably the one that has no problems connecting with USB) to the Time Capsule via USB?
Second, somewhat-related problem...
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- Neither of the two drives Firewire daisy-chained and going through the powered USB hub connected to the MBP mount. I was using old aliases on desktop.*They don't show up on network otherwise. (Each drive self-mounts with both Firewire and USB direct connections.)
*Even after making new aliases, neither drive will mount using their new aliases when directly connected (not through hub) with USB or Firewire (and Thunderbolt adapter.) That's weird.
- Both the 240 gb and the 1TB drives going through powered hub connected to MBP mount by themselves.
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- All of the USB and the Firewire cables work as does the Thunderbolt adapter. I tested them.
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HT5299 Can 2 daisy-chained firewire-800 drives be connected to 1 Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter?
Can 2 daisy-chained firewire-800 drives be connected to 1 Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter?
Nightwatch (NL) wrote:
Thanks Steve!
One more question: Stayed throughput speeds more or less the same as original Firewire (since all my movies are on external disks) or has it become significantly slower?
I haven't done a careful side by side quantitative comparison of what I had on the older Macbook Pro (which had three Firewire800 disks chained together via FW800) versus the new Macbook Pro (which has thunderbolt into which I have connected three FW800 drives daisy chained via the adaptor), mainly because my employer supplied me with these computers and required I turn in the old one when they replenished it with the new one. However, I can say this -- one of the FW800 externals is used for Time Machine, another for making entire disk clones, and the third is for misc storage. I have seen Time Machine start up during a disk clone (with SuperDuper) and there seems to be no impact. The disk cloning is generally pretty intensive on disk and cpu resources, but thunderbolt seems to have a much bigger capacity for throughput than firewire and hence can apparently accommodate multiple streams of FW800 data going back and forth with no apparent impact on each other. The main limit seems to be the FW800 speed itself, not thunderbolt. I see ~ 60 MB/s or more which is as much as I have ever seen on FW800. Ultimately, the ideal setup will be thunderbolt drives daisy chained together, I would expect hundreds of MB/s, but I don't see many of these thunderbolt drives on the market yet. Even better would be solid state drives ... -
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Most Thunderbolt drives that I have seen also have a USB 3 port. You could use that, but on on an older Mac that does not have a USB 3 port you will be limited to USB 2 speeds. -
MacBook Pro Retina (15") intermittant freeze connecting firewire drive to Thunderbolt adapter
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Connect firewire audio interface and external monitor
I have just bought my MacBook Pro 13 and I will mainly use it for audio recording . I have connect my audio interface through the firewire port. I need to connect an external monitor . The only available ports are thunderbolt and USB . Can I connect a monitor with these available ports ?
Hi charisio,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you would like to connect an external display to your MacBook Pro, you can use the Thunderbolt port. See these articles for some good information about Thunderbolt:
Thunderbolt ports and displays: Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5219
OS X Mountain Lion: About Thunderbolt
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11407
All the best,
Jeremy -
Hello, no audio if I connect via Thunderbolt via a cable to HDMI.
Hello,
I don't hear audio if I connect via Thunderbolt via a cable to HDMI interface. Does anyone encountered the same problem?
Thanks Henk Truijen:
[email protected]Check the setting in the "Output" tab of "Sound" system preference.
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I'm running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1
Thank you !We've already done all of that. And we used the same thunderbolt cable to connect two iMac's and that worked totally fine doing the Command+ F2. I don't understand why we can't get the macbook to do the same.
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I want to transfer data from my old Mac book pro to my new one using migrate. The old computer doesn't have Thunderbolt 2 and the new one doesn't have Firewire 800. Does the Thunderbolt to Firewire or the Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter work to connect them and transfer data?
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