Daisy chain FW 800 for TM?

i thought i saw a post here that cautioned against having the drive being used by TM daisychained with other FW 800 drives, but i cannot find it. is that a legit restriction??

Forrest:
That's exactly what I'm doing. My 750 GB TM drive is first in the chain and I have 2 additional drives daisychained from it. The are all self powered drivers so there's no issues of FW port power capacity. So far it's working fine.
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