Firewire to Thunderbolt, Firewire to Thunderbolt

Are there any Firewire 400 to Thunderbolt adaptors out there?

Ahhhh, this is so frustrating! Just bought the new iMac Refresh.... no Firewire 400, only one Firewire 800!?!! ****. This Thunderbolt thing is cool, but it needs some adapters. From my research they say it's going to be possible, but there are none in production that I can find.
I have 3 Firewire 800 external harddrives and one Firewire 400 external soundcard, I've daisy chained the harddrives together and am either going to buy this firewire 800/400 hub or a 400 to 800 converter and a Firewire 800 hub.
Sonnet Technologies Yin Yang Firewire Mini Hub FW800 FHB-8284
http://tinyurl.com/3q3pouk
Or
I can also get a 400 to 800 converters cable (elago FireWire 400 to 800 Adapter for Mac)
http://tinyurl.com/3gcq5gl
And a Firewire repeater (Kramer VS-8FW 8-Port FireWire Repeater / Hub)
http://tinyurl.com/3egbf44
The first option is cheaper ($46.67) and the second more expensive ($6.99+$120=$126.99). Probably just going to go with the cheaper option and hopefully it'll do the trick for the time being.
Hopefully some Firewire 400 to Thunderbolt converters come out soon! We need those ports!!!

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Hi to all, i'm writing because probably there's a bug on the latest osx 10.8.2 so, could you check that what happens to me is equal to you too?
I've a Macbook Pro Retina from about 2 weeks and in the last 3 days i've seen 2 freeze of the system, i couldn't make anything, only force power off with the power button. After some tests i've noted and isolated the issue, so this is what happens:
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- go out of sleep
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how i've told the only way to restore is force the mac to power off.
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and this is when all works fine:

I'm having this exact behaviour on my 13" Retina MacBook Pro running 10.8.2 when inserting a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter. System freezes hard, have to hold down power button to reset.

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I did a little looking around and found a Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter, and then a Firewire 400 to 800 adapter, but no Thunderbolt to Firewire 400. Amazon and Apple stores had the Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 cable and Amazon had the Firewire 400 to 800 adapater.
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Daisy-chaining firewire 400 and firewire 800?

I would like to daisy-chain two Western Digital MyBook Pros to a Macbook:
- FW 400 from Macbook to first drive
- FW 800 between the drives
Would this work or not? I have one of those, they have 2 x FW 800, 1 x FW 400, 1 x USB at back.
(If not, I'll buy a 'Premium' which has 2 x FW 400, and 1 x USB..)

JoeyR wrote:
I'm not sure if the hardware in the first drive, that's connected by firewire 400 is "smart" enough to jump the data over to the FW800 connectors for daisy chaining.
Just pulled this from the WD site. I would say this indicates it would work. You won't get more speed but they should work daisy chained. This indicates the drive is smart enough to do this.
+Question: Will Western Digital FireWire 400 (1394a) external hard drives work connected to a FireWire 800 (1394b) port?+
+Answer: The FireWire 800 Specification (1394b) states that FireWire 400 devices will work while connected to a FireWire 800 (1394b) port. The FireWire 400 cable (4-6 pin or 6-6 pin) will not connect to a FireWire 800 port (9 pin) therefore you will need to connect the hard drive using a FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 cable (1394a to 1394b cable). These cables are available at most computer stores.+

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I have been keeping up with the Thunderbolt stuff for a year now. It is pretty disappointing that no one, Apple or otherwise seems to have any interest in Thunderbolt. I have a Thunderbolt external drive, and I am quite pleased with its speed.
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