MacBook Pro, Daisy chaining, and Mercury Elite Drives?

I want to copy the content from 1 FW800 Mercury Elite mini drive to a new FW800 Mercury Elite mini drive.
Problem is that i dont have enough space on my MacBook Pro to copy to my internal drive
Can I literally connect the two externals together via my single fw800 slot?

Yup, connect one to the port on the laptop, and the other into the unused port on the back of the first drive. You will see both drives mount and can drag and drop amongst them.
Oh, but don't count on bus powering them as the firewire bus cannot handle that load, so I would actually use the DC power bricks with both drives just to be sure not to overload the firewire bus on the computer.

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