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FireWire Ports

The Power Mac G4 Cube has two external FireWire IEEE 1394 ports. The features of the FireWire ports are:

The FireWire hardware and software provided with the Power Mac G4 Cube are capable of all asynchronous and isochronous transfers defined by IEEE standard 1394.

Developers of FireWire peripherals are required to provide device drivers. A driver for DV (digital video) is included in QuickTime 4.0.

Users can connect two computers to each other using a FireWire cable and exchange data by using Target Disk Mode, as described in Target Disk Mode.

FireWire Connector


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