Fire wire 800 and the 24" imac

I'm strongly considering purchasing a 24" iMac. I see that a lot of people are having problems using their 800 port with external hard drives. I was wondering if anyone out there has had any success using it? The main reason that i'm buying the 24" instead of a smaller one is the 800 port. What do you guys thing...hold off until they fix it?
Message was edited by: Big CB

Tom,
Have you verified that using both the FW 400 and 800 ports at the same time really gives you full speed on both ports on your imac? (Check the FW speed in "About this Mac" with both connected). The reason I ask is that when I have a FW800(only) drive plugged into my Powerbook G4,, I get FW 800 speed. However, when I plug in a FW device of any kind to the FW 400 port, both ports drop to FW 400 speed. I have a FW 400 cardbus adapter also, and even if I plug all FW 400 devices into the cardbus adapter, I still only get FW 400 speed out of the FW 800 port.
So I am curious if the ports on the new imac are actually independent (like they are on a Mac Pro), or if they continue to share one FW chip. I wish to have a Firewire audio interface connected to the FW 400 port and a fast hard drive connected to the FW 800 port and still get maximum performance out of each. Any further info 2ould be appreciated.
Bob

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