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MacPro (2008) 002r, two Glyph drives with both 800 and 400 connection
points. (Waiting for Leopard)

I am waiting, like others, for the LE update to liberate my $3K aluminum brick (MacPro) to productivity.

This gives me time for wondering about small things. Like this:

Can I connect my two Glyph firewire dirves to the 800 ports on the MacPro
while connecting the 002r to the MacPro 400 connection without incident?

Seems like a can-do question but you never know. Given Digi's only 400 connections are supported but in this case I want to connect the drives to the MacPro 800 connections directly.

Any comments appreciated.

Absolutely you can do this. Protools doesn't care at all; I was running like that on my old G4 powerbook.

The real 'problem' I ended up having when I got my new macbook pro (the winter '08 model) is that we're now down to one FW 800 interface on the computer. Easy to solve, tho: get a FW 800 splitter and a 800-to-400 'bilingual' FW cable. Now I'm running FW 800 to my external HD and FW 400 to the digi 002. So far so good.