From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: May 15, 2008 9:46:13 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Firewire cables..


Hi Mark;


No your right.


I just checked the IEEE1394 spec documents for both 1394A and 1394B and they do state that cables can run up to 4.5 meters and be "in spec". So as long as you have a repeater between them, they should be okay.


Sorry about that..


Milton J. Aupperle


On 15-May-08, at 8:03 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Dear Milton, I found this snippet on the following site<http://www.fwdepot.com/wcable.html