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B&W Firewire Hub
Authored by: Anonymous on Feb 06, '03 04:34:52PM

Your setup is quite similar to mine:

G4 Powerbook
B&W G3 300MHz - 80 + 20GB Maxtor 7200 hard disks
OWC Firewire Card
Sony DV Camera

I was amazed to find out that I could do this today.
I connected the DV camera to my B&W and connected my Powerbook to the B&W as well. I have IP Over FireWire setup on both of my machines and set up the 80GB hard disk in the B&W to be shared on my Powerbook.
When I opened up iMovie 3 on the Powerbook I was able to control my DV camera even though it was connected to my B&W. I was also able to create a new project stored on the B&W's hard disk and when I imported video it was stored directly on the B&W!!
This workaround gives me a very cheap external hard drive for my Powerbook. I had always been annoyed that I couldn't put my B&W into FireWire target mode but IPOverFireWire has given me something even more useful.



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