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Originally Posted by TREXROCK
Upon more experimenting, I noticed my new drive which has dual 800 inputs worked with the mbox 2 pro when on my white macbook that has a firewire 400 bus/port. Then with the same drive hooked up with my MBP with an 800 bus gave me errors. Seems its the bus not the drives.
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Not necessarily.
The reason why it worked before, is because your drive is running at 400 when plugged into the 400 port... but it is trying to run at 800 when plugged into the 800 port. Since the FW Digi devices do not support 800, it won't work in this configuration.
That is why it is suggested to use a FW400 drive with a 400-800 cable. This will ramp the bus speed down to 400, and the overall chain will follow suit. Thus, working MBox.