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General Information -

A Serial Bus hardware technology much like USB. It  provides Plug and Play, hot swapping. It uses a peer-to-peer configuration.

Firewire hardware are listed at the Firewire Hardware page.

Transfer rates are 100, 200, and 400 megabits-per-second.

The technology is actually called IEEE-1394. Several companies have trademarked names for this technology such as Apple's FireWire,  Sony's i.Link and Texas Instrument's Lynx.

As many as 63 devices can be daisy chained from a single host connection. The maximum distance between devices is 4.5 meters  with a total combined segment length of 72 meters.

Connectors

Connector A	Connector B
IEEE-1394M-6C Male 6-pin	IEEE-1394M-4C Male 4-pin

Links -

• 1394 Trade Association Web Site

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