firewire daisy-chaining slows drives down?

Bfavre444

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Does daisy-chaining 2 firewire external drives onto the same firewire port slow down the transfer speeds of both drives dramatically? For example, I will have a PCMCIA 2-port FW card: one will be for the camcorder, and the second port for 2 daisy-chained drives. Would daisy-chaining 2 drives be much slower than having the 2 drives on separate ports?