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FireWire Port

The iBook computer has one external FireWire IEEE 1394 port. The FireWire port

• supports serial I/O at 100, 200, and 400 Mbps (megabits per second)

• provides up to 7 watts of power when the computer system is on

• supports booting the system from a mass storage device

• supports Target Disk Mode (TDM)

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

FireWire Connector

FireWire Device Programming