That faulty drive caused my LaCie Firewire CD burner to disappear too. I couldn't see any devices on my FireWire chain if that drive was connected. "I finally had to crack the HD case open and ...

Yet FireWire's principal creator, Apple, nearly killed it before it could appear in a single device. And eventually the Cupertino company effectively did kill FireWire, just as it seemed poised to ...

Mac shops with significant FireWire investment may not need a total Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 makeover, but staying put with current hard drives and devices will come at a price This past summer ...

There have been similar reports where the FireWire port on the Mac end gets "blown out" after connecting or disconnecting a device. However, we are not aware of any confirmation from Apple of a ...

FireWire, or its more technical name, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1394, works similarly to a universal serial bus: It enables plug-and-play devices to connect to a computer ...

DMA allows a Firewire device access to memory in the PC. The valid reason for this is performance; while the device is reading or writing memory, the PC’s CPU can continue it’s own job.

The difference that this kind of connectivity makes to an older machine is obvious - and it's not uncommon to see PowerBooks still in operation with life support from one or more FireWire devices ...

FireWire has a few advantages over USB at the time. FireWire devices could be daisy-chained to one another, meaning you only really needed one port on your computer to connect dozens of devices ...

French FireWire product maker MacWay today announced that its line of Oxford 911 bridge chip-based products are compliant with Mac OS X version 10.1. The company produces 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch ...

Firewire’s fast low-latency data transfer capabilities, daisy-chained device friendliness, and device driver support all counted in its favor. Even as USB protocols improved from USB 1.X ...

One of the most interesting improvements to the new Mac mini models announced Tuesday is that the mini’s single FireWire 400 port has been replaced by a faster FireWire 800 version. In addition ...

You may remember the Pipewire coverage we ran a couple weeks ago, and the TODO item to fix up Firewire device support with Pipewire. It turns out that this is an important feature for kernel ...