From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: June 26, 2005 10:30:39 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: longer firewire cable

The only thing I would caution is that Apples' FireWire cable is

fragile and their have been reportes of the cable not working properly

after being man-handled. The thinner the cable, the tighter the wires

can be bent and the more prone to wire breaking off internally.

If it ever breaks internally, you'll start to see eratic non

repeatable problemss happening with the camera - like dropped frames,

not responding properly, not gettign power etc. etc.

I was doing Microsoft Driver Signing for a FireWire device and we kept

failing the tests erratically. It eventually turned out to be a bad

cable that when bent in one direction would work - but in the other

would short out. So when we unplugged the device, it would go nuts or

not repond properly. Watsed a whole day of trouble shooting before we

tracked down what the culprit was. We cut the cable in half and threw

it in the trash. I think we were goign to make a FireWire cable tester

to ensure that this didn't happen again, but I left the company

before that happened.

Milton

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Friedman" <alan@g...> wrote:

I use the thin firewire cable sold by Apple. It works fine for me and 

is more flexibility and lighter weight than the standard issue 

firewire cable.

Alan