Ieee 1394 firewire cables from cables to go provide transfer speeds up to 400 mbps digital video camcorders scanners printers video conferencing cameras and fixed disk drives can all share a common bus connection to one pc as well as to each other with windows me or apples firewire target disk mode you can use an ieee 1394 cable to connect two computers together to allow for file sharing use the 6 pin cable to provide power to devices and the 4 pin for non powered devices