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FireWire Ports

The computer includes two external FireWire IEEE 1394 ports on the rear panel of the enclosure. The features of the FireWire ports are:

• support high-speed serial I/O at 100, 200, and 400 Mbps
• provide 15 watts of power when the computer system is on
• accept external power input on FireWire bus when system is off

The FireWire hardware and software provided with the computer are capable of all asynchronous and isochronous transfers defined by IEEE standard 1394-1995. Developers of FireWire peripherals are required to provide device drivers.

It is possible to connect two computers to each other using a FireWire cable, but no software is provided to make use of such a connection. Also, third-party software such as video editing applications may not deal gracefully with a shared FireWire peripheral if two or more computers attempt to communicate with it at the same time.