Adding additional firewire ports?

Does anybody know if you can additional firewire ports to my macbook pro?
Thanks,
kidboy

Macbook pro should have 1 firewire 400 (1394a) and 1 firewire 800 (1394b) so you can just get a cable that goes 800to400 and use that 1394b jack. Or you can get an external hard drive box that has a second firewire port on it to pass through to another device. Failing that, get a firewire hub and poof lots of ports.
And yes, daisy chain.
Useful FAQ? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60985

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