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FireWire Ports

The PowerBook computer has two external FireWire IEEE 1394 ports. The FireWire ports

support serial I/O at 100, 200, and 400 Mbps (megabits per second)
provide up to 6 watts of power when the computer system is on
accept external power input from the bus
support booting the system from a mass storage device
support target disk mode

The FireWire hardware and software provided with the PowerBook computer are capable of all asynchronous and isochronous transfers defined by IEEE standard 1394.

FireWire Ports

FireWire Connectors

FireWire Device Programming