Slightly OT: Firewire drives - daisy chain or hub?

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, August 01, 2005 11:42 AM -0400 Tony Nelson 
<tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:

> The main advantage to using a powered hub (from my perspective having done
> some Firewire development (on MacOS)) is that when somthing bad happens
> and Firewire destroys the Firewire Interface you're hot-plugging something
> into, it will be either the device or the hub that is destroyed, not the
> computer's motherboard.

Good reason to use optical, esp. in an industrial environment where you 
can't trust the other vendor to get his grounds right. It's also not 
susceptible to motor noise, so you can run it right next to the motor drive 
lines for the robotic handlers.