No Firewire 800 input

Hi,
I currently have an iMac that I use to transport to my studio for tethering to my Hasselblad camera via a firewire 800. I am very keen to look at and probably purchase, the new imac due out soon but have just seen that it does not have the FW800 input.
Seeing as the Hasselblad only has this single output I wondered if it would work by using an adaptor cable and if so, would I be looking at the thunderbolt input or the USB 3.0
Is there going to be enough power to drive the camera and will htere be a speed drop by using the convertor.
The machine is totally useless to me if there is no solution.
I will of course, put this question to Hasselblad as they are going to have to come up with a resolution I feel however I thought it worth asking here first.
Many thanks
Jason

Has anyone had more experience on this situation yet, I am ready to purchase a new 27" iMac but am very concerned about the thunderbolt to FW800 adaptor not having enough power to tether the Hasselblad 50MP.
Can I get a powered hub to sort this out if I run into any problems, if so, what would people recommend?
Thanks
Jason

Similar Messages

How do I use my iMac's Firewire 800 port to connect to my external hardrive using a USB Micro-B input?

I have a late 2009 iMac with Firewire 800 input on the back. I have a Western Digital Passport external hard drive with USB Micro-B input that I would like to connect to the Firewire (4 USB inputs aren't nearly enough on the iMac). I can't find an adapter to do this. Can someone please help?? As an alternative, is there an adapter that will convert the Firewire 800 to standard USB2.0?

USB and FireWire work in very different ways, so there is no adapter.
Instead, you should just get a USB 2.0 hub, like this one
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/USB2HB7PRO/
There are many choices, but be sure to get one that is powered (it comes with its own power supply). Cheaper hubs rely on the computer's USB port for power.

No Firewire 800 Cable

I just received my Mac Pro and my 30 inch Cinema Display.
The main power cable that is attached to the back of the Display splits, and also contains a second power cable, a USB cable and a FireWire 400 cable.
The problem is that new Mac Pros have only Firewire 800 inputs. Apple says they do not make a matching cable. That's ridiculous. I connected the cables. If I keep everything as is without an attached FireWire cable, what impact will this have on viewing my video editing?

Apple says they do not make a matching cable.
If needed, purchase a FireWire 400 to 800 cable or adapter, which are also known as 6 pin to 9 pin.
If I keep everything as is without an attached FireWire cable, what impact will this have on viewing my video editing?
The only function of the FireWire ports on the display is so the display can act as a FireWire hub. If you're not connecting any other FireWire devices to the display, you don't need to hook them up. The same is true for the USB ports.
(47504)

Can I power an external ST91000640NS using FireWire 800?

Hi,
I am going to buy a new 17" MacBook Pro soon and I've been doing research on how to customize it when I get it. I want to install my own SLC SSD as the internal drive because it's cheaper and has a longer life expectancy. Because of the limited capacity of SSDs these days, I am also going to be getting an external HDD to keep all my data that would not benefit greatly from SSD speeds, as well as for backups of everything on the internal SSD.
I wanted this external HDD to meet three criteria:
1TB capacity
7200rpm speed
2.5" size, so that I can use it without needing to plug it into a power socket
There aren't many options to choose from that meet those requirements. In fact, I only found one candidate, the “Seagate Constellation.2”. It looks like a good set of specs and Seagate is a reputable hard disk maker I've read, so I'm just about ready to buy one. My only point of concern is whether it can be powered and operated solely over FireWire, or if I would have to use a power adapter.
So my question is, can the 17" MBP (Late 2011) supply enough watts/volts/amps over FireWire 800 in order to power this Seagate disk? (Sorry for rambling too much)
I have looked at the spec sheet and read up on IEEE 1394, i.e. FireWire, and I wasn't able to come up with a definitive answer, and I'm not even confident about how these electronics operate (specifically if the watt/volt/ampere requirements have to be met precisely or if they can go over or under a little, or a lot). I hope someone helps me out here.
Now here are the relevant specs, from the ST91000640NS product page:
12V start max current
0.85A
5V start max current
0.51A
Average idle power
2.95W
Average operating power
5.43W
According to Wikipedia's article on IEEE 1394, FireWire can supply a maximum of 45W and 30V.
Apple's FireWire Ports Specifications article says:
Input voltage range
8 to 33 V
Input power
0.3 W
Output voltage range
12 V to 30 V (varies by product)
Output power
minimum of 7 W per port
The disk will be put in an OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini enclosure, by the way. (Though I don't think that matters.)

Kappy may be right — he most often is. But the Constellation is an enterprise drive designed for continuous use in servers, not for bus-powered use as an external drive. Among currently-available 1TB notebook drives, the kind that are normally used in bus-powered portable external enclosures, there are none that run at 7200 RPM, so I assume that's why you've settled on the Constellation. My concern about your plan is twofold: first, the drive is 15mm high. Will it fit in the enclosure you've selected? Ask OWC. And second, because the Constellation is normally run on AC power without any amperage ceiling that it's likely to exceed, I wonder whether during spinup or heavy usage it will occasionally draw more power than your FireWire bus can supply, causing it to be automatically powered off. I'm not conversant enough with electrical specs to be able to tell whether that's a possibility. Perhaps Kappy is.

My Fantom backup drive is failing. I want to copy the time machine contents to a new backup drive and continue on as if nothing has happened. Can I do this and if so how? I have intel iMac running Mountain Lion. Fantom Drive via Firewire 800.

My Fantom backup drive is failing and I have to send it in for warranty repair. Before I do that I want to copy the time machine contents to a new drive and then use it for the backup, continuing on as if nothing had gone wrong with the first drive. Can I do this? Is it as simple as duplicating the first drive and replacing it with the second? New drive arrives Tuesday PM and both drives have dual firewire 800 ports.

I have used the Disk Utility to verify the contents of the backup drive so I don't think I have any corrupt files. The drive just takes a minute or so to spin up to speed. If I turn it off and then back on, it beeps at me for a few seconds and then starts it's slow process of trying to spin. I think it's a power problem not a data problem. I have my fingers crossed that it holds on until Tuesday PM when the new drive arrives. I'm thinking that my two options are to duplicate the bad drive or partition the new drive and put the old backups on one partition and start afresh on the second partition. Any input?
And thanks to both of you for the valuable information so far!

Canon Gl2 Video Camera Not Recognized with Firewire 800 Connection

I have a late 2010 mac with 2.93 Ghz Intel Core i7 Processor with 12GB DDR3 running 10.8.2 OSX. I have a Canon GL2 video camcorder with a MiniDV tape I am trying to download to my computer. I am using a new 4pin to 9pin Rocketfish Firewire 800 cable. My computer is not recognizing the firewire input from the GL2. As suggested with other support threads, I have tried to turn the mac and computer off and on, as well as check to see if the cable is working. I have also tried both a trial version of Final Cut, and Imovie 09 which is loaded on my Mac, neither of which will recognize the camera. I clicked on the System Information icon and looked at the Firewire 800 status which was:
FireWire Bus:
Warning: Unable to list FireWire devices.
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
At least I know it recognized something. I have also checked to make sure the Canon is set to DV-Out on the Menu. Since I am unable to use a USB connector with MiniDV, would there be any other way to either A) Download the video to the computer, or B) get the Mac to recognize the source plugged into the Firewire? Any help with this would be excellent.

I believe that in order to be recognized, you have to start the process from within iMovie of Final Cut; as for your FW port, you can try these two different troubleshooting steps (may or may not work, but won't hurt):
Reset SMC:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
It may that your FW port is defective; it that turns out to be the problem, I hope you purchased Applecare because those ports are an integral part of the logic board, so that would have to be replaced ($$$).
Since your footage is on DV tapes, you do need the FW to transfer it or it will not work. One other (involved) way would be to transfer your footage to a DVD if you have a DVD recorder and then get it on the Mac from there.

How to go from Firewire 800 or Thunderbolt to HDMI? Which one is the most efficient?, How to go from Firewire 800 or Thunderbolt to HDMI? Which one is the most efficient?

I have no HDMI port on my macbook, but only Thunderbolt and FireWire 800, and I need to connect to my digital TV that requires an HDMI port.

Hello, thanks for your rapid answer.
I have a macBook Pro (15"), with a Intel 2,3Ghz Core I7. 4Go 1700 Mhz DDR3. NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 Mo, and OS X 10.8.4.
I have the following ports: FireWire 800, Thunderbolt, USB 3 (x2), SDXC card slot, audio In and audio out (headphones).
I bought a Belkin Mini DisplayPort to HDTV Cable (https://discussions.apple.com/message/22742775?ac_cid=op123456#22742775)
I have an HD TV from LG 32LH3000, with 3 HDMI inputs. I regularly use one of these HDMI input to watch movies, stored on an HDD.
Thanks again for your help.

Send Video Out via Firewire 800?

I have a macbook pro that has a firewire 800 port on it
i also have a video switcher for video productions that takes a firewire 400 input as a video source
i own a firewire 800 to 400 cable.
is there any way to get video to send out of the macbook pro to go into the video switcher?
when i connect the cables, nothing happens.
please help!

I had forgotten I'd posted this and I need to make a clarification.
At the time of this posting, I'd been assured by Blackmagic Designs that Color would preview externally through their Intensity Pro card although in 8-bit video. Since the time of this posting and upon further query with BM tech support, I was told the Intensity Pro could not be used in this function.
Sorry if there has been any confusion caused by my statement.
Zeb

DVCPro HD transfer through FireWire 800

Hi there,
I'm planning on connecting an external DVCProHD tape deck to capture footage using Final Cut Pro through the 800 port, then chaining a LaCie drive via an adapter to catpure the footage on to this external drive. So essentially, a FireWire 800 2-port adapter plugged into the single 800 connection in the MBP.
Do any of you know what impact this amount of data will have on the drive? I'm obviously keen to avoid frame drop-out and want to maximise the speed of the drive, although I'm wary of connecting both inputs via the 800 adapter through the single port.
Thanks, Mark

Hi Robert,
Thank you for your response.
I probably wasn't clear enough sorry! I am hoping to hook in a FireWire 800 adapter, maybe something like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Port-FireWire-800-Repeater-Hub/dp/B000OZ68KW/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1279624822&sr=1-1
Into this, I will connect both the DVCPro HD deck and the external LaCie drive. My main concern is running both these devices through the adapter, as it's essentially using one 800 port for both data streams.
Is this something that is feasible? Am I right in saying that this will data stream will be quicker than hooking the drive in via USB?
Thanks,
Mark

Available space on firewire 800 graid incorrect

I have been working in FCP 4.5 HD for the past year and a half. The drive in question has been with me through the worst of it.
It is a 500 GB g-tech raid Firewire 800 drive. When I Get Info on the drive, Mac OS 10.4 tells me it has 68.19 GB of available space. When I get summary info for the drive's entire contents, it says it is 308.53 GB. With an actual capacity of 465.65 GB, the math doesn't add up. 465.65 - 308.53 = 157.12
I've got the same drive with the same media on it on another system and the "Available space" is what I would expect it to be. I've run disk utility and disk warrior (to rebuild the directory) on the drive, and it's always the same.
I though it might be a fragmentation issue, but since mac os defragments as it goes, I'm not quite sure what to hypothesize.
Any ideas?

i was afraid some one was going to say that. I ran disk warrior. I haven't worked with it extensively, so if it goes beyond just rebuilding the directory or scavenging for lost files, I wouldn't know how to specifically target the catalog & b-trees.
I'm afraid this might be a backup and reformat situation.
I appreciate the input.

Firewire 800 crashes win 7 on bootcamp

I am using a late 2011 15" MBP (8, 2) with an upgrade to 8gb of ram.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate on Bootcamp to use Adobe Software products (as Windows has advantageous features that are not supported by OSX).
The problem begins and ends when I plug in my Lacie Quadra 2tb external HDD to edit/grade videos in Premiere Pro (CS6), Speedgrade (CS6), and when transferring files (so just about any action that uses firewire): the computer crashes/freezes. There is absolutely no response in inputs or outputs, and the only way to get out of it is to force-shutdown the system.
This is just a terrific situation since Apple decided to get rid of the Expresscard slot from MBP's so that I can't use USB 3.0. I just don't know why the computer keeps crashing when using firewire 800, because everything goes over smoothly while using USB 2.0 (it's just too **** slow for my purposes).
I am very desperate for a solution for this FW800 problem... Can anyone out there help me, please?

It works. No more lock-ups for me with the legacy driver.
Here are the instructions (taken from the link above):
Windows 7's built-in FireWire (called IEEE 1394) drivers do not work properly. External devices connected via FireWire will either fail to be recognized properly, or lock up when initiating file transfers of any appreciable size. Luckily there is a relatively simple fix for this issue. Windows 7 includes the older Vista drivers, which work just fine. You simply need to roll back the drivers on your 1394 host adapter by doing the following: Open Device Manager, expand your IEEE 1394 Host Bus Controllers and right-click on your 1394 device, then choose "Update Driver Software". In the new window, click on "Browse my computer for driver software", then choose "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer", then select the driver with the word "legacy" in brackets.
Don't forget to restart after you do this.

Upgrading my intel iMac to internal SSD and running 1TB external drive from firewire 800 for mass storage while still using a second external drive for backups...my goal-speed with a SSD, to still have 1TB of room for everything i have now..possible?

I seem to kill HD's every two years...the last two i've installed were WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm 3.5" drives. The speed gains over stock drives have been remarkable. I don't blame the drives for the failures, my machines are up and running 16 hours a day, every day, year round. They die from 'mileage' so to speak...i assume...there's no viral acvtivity or questionable downloads to gunk things up...just lots of work.
I have my third new drive ready to install in my intel based iMac...but i've had a thought...I want to install a SSD in my iMac for the speed gain (and recent price drops)...for standard storage i want to use this new WD Caviar Black 1TB in an external drive bay and connect via firewire 800 for storing everything except the OS and my most commonly used software...am i crazy? will the firewire 800 external drive negate the speed gained with an internal SSD??
I have four iMacs in my office, and one at home. I buy second hand and install new drives and boost memory. I'm going to do this on my 'home' machine...if it works out well i want to upgrade the other three this way...but first i need to know if i'm just dreaming, or will it really make a difference? or even possible??
Thanks!
2.66 intell core2duo
2009 iMac
8gig ram
1 gig hd
OSX ver. 10.8

The SSD gives great bootup and Application launch speed. I think it also speeds up the video rendering a bit, I do all that on the SSD and then move the finished project to the external drives. As far as the speed for the external drives they are quick enough for viewing video and the file transfer rate is good. I had initially put the SSD into an external cradle (FW800) and the system was faster than on the internal drive. I only got a 1.5GBs SATA drive, perhaps yours could benefit from the 3GBs. I know the 6GBs would be too fast and costs a lot more, even the MacPros need special hookups to make use of the 6GBs.

New Firewire 800 External Hard Drive and how to use old External USB Drive

Hi All,
I have a new LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk hard drive 500 GB - FireWire / FireWire 800 / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300 on the way, when it arrives I plan to use it as my Time Machine Backup drive with the FireWire 800 connection. I am currently using a Seagate Free Agent USB 2.0 320 GB external drive as my Time Machine disk. The reason for upgrading is the USB drive is slow slow slow! I am not concerned about the data on my old drive and will just wipe it clean using Disk Utility. What I would like to do is use the old drive to archive iTunes 7.7.1 and Aperture 2.0 music and photographs. Can someone give me an idea how to go about doing this?
Thanks!

Hi, yes that will copy the whole iTunes..including everything in iTunes..BUT, as you add to your iTunes on the Main HD, with the ext HD I think you will have to manually update anything added. Or dragNdrop the whole thing again.. You could also locate you iTunes music Library & just copy that across..With images once again find your iPhoto library & just copy that across..L

Problems with File Transfers Over Firewire 800

Problems with File Transfers Over Firewire 800.
Over the past month, I have had problems when transfering files from my harddrive, over Firewire 800 to a portable drive. I usually transfer very large files (20gb or more) to the portable drives for moving files around. When I drag a file over to copy onto a drive, the transfer starts normally. If I drag more files to copy over, the computer screen goes darker and a large icon comes up that looks like a power button icon. It tells me to restart, so I have to do a hard shut down on my G5. Weird. I also get the dark screen of death sometimes when I am transfering those large files and open another application to do some work while it's copying. It's killing me. I am having to sit here and wait for the transfer to finish before I can do anything.
Any thoughts...
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5
Mac OSX 10.4.3
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Have you run the Apple Hardware Test? Sounds like it could be a RAM problem.

How to connect an external harddrive with firewire 800 to a macbook with firewire 400?

Hello,
I just got the external harddrive "Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0 1TB" with a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Upgrade Kabel FireWire 800. I have neither a USB 3.0, nor a Firewire 800 on my white macbook (2008). I already know, that it's possible to use USB 3.0 with an USB 2.0 port, but I would like to use it with the firewire to spare the USB port for other devices. My question: Is there an adapter or cable to use the Seagate Firewire 800 with my Firewire 400 port? I don't know, where and what to look for.
I'm glad for any advice.

There are many adaptors, try here

No Firewire 800 input

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for