Has anyone use FireWire 400-800 cable to hook up their "old" FW400 devices?

Hello all.
Just wanna find out if anyone has started to use a FireWire 400 to 800 cable to hook up their existing FW400 external devices (like hard drives, etc) to the new Mac mini
Appreciate any feedback, performance. Thanks and cheers

Remember that the external iSight is a discontinued product and apple no longer support it. So they probably only gave the FW bus enough juice to power portable hardrives. Most other FW devices have their own power anyway.
I have seen this behaviour before with FW video capture devices. The manufacturers did not supply a psu with the device but there was a powersocket on the device should your mac not comfortably power the device you were expected to get a PSU or use a powered FW hub.

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