MacFixIt reader Navarro Parker reported an instance of hard drive disappearance in reaction to our earlier report about volume dismounts related to permissions that indicates one "bad" device can ...

Sometimes devices -- particularly drives -- that offers both FireWire and USB 2.0 connectivity achieves a certain level of throughput when connected exclusively via FireWire, then achieves a lower ...

Home networking is a simple moniker that can mean far too many things. Today, consumers need an entertainment network that links the digital-media devices in the home and that works with legacy ...

Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

During the meta-liveblog yesterday, I was in full-out Apple fangirl mode. I won't lie; after the MacBook specs and design were revealed, I was already contemplating putting my current BlackBook (that ...

For several years, Apple Computer's FireWire has been the leading means of providing high-speed connections between computers and digital devices, but fresh competition is forcing the company and ...

I haven't owned more than a single FireWire 800 device before (odd I know) so I'm not sure if there is a certain order they should be daisy chained to provide bus power? I have an iMac (2011) with ...

The 6-pin FireWire 400 port made its way into every Apple laptop released between January 2003 and October 2008, with the exception of the MacBook Air. With a greater sustained throughput than USB 2.0 ...

Everyone knows that Microsoft has embraced FireWire (IEEE 1394), but Microsoft’s keynote opening the 1394 Developer’s Conference in Redmond, WA today outlined how critical FireWire is to Microsoft and ...

I traced back a lot of my Ipod troubles to my firewire networking. It seems that the ipod will randomly select a machine on my network to mount on, and not the one I plug it into. Other times it will ...

WiebeTech is announcing a slew of new products at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo in New York, including pocket drives, a three-port FireWire card, FireWire-bus powered bridge interface, and ...