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where can i find myself one of these cables but with firewire instead of usb cause on one of my cisco moduals it shows that but with firewire
 

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Best Buy definitely carries firewire cables, but they're absurdly expensive there. Check out monoprice:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10301

They have every combination of 4-pin, 6-pin, 9-pin cables in a variety of lengths.

Is this for stacking together a couple Cisco switches with the Gigastack Stacking GBIC module?? I'm pretty sure you want a cable with the 6-pin firewire connector on both ends.

Here are the docs for the Gigastack Stacking GBIC module:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps628/products_data_sheet09186a00800a1789.html

NOTE: This post elsewhere on the forum:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/69922/

Implies that while the connectors are the same as firewire, cisco changed the pinout so you CANNOT use a regular firewire cable!

The part number for the proper Cisco cable is CAB-GS-1M - OR, you can toss those weird ass stacking GBICs and get some 1000Base-T GBICs
 
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