Can I use both firewire ports (Thunderbolt Display AND Macbook Pro) concurrently?

I have a FW800 external hard drive, which I usually daisy chain through a FW400 audio interface (which brings the speed of both devices down to FW400).

Can I run the hard drive off the thunderbolt display at full (FW800) speed, while running the audio device at FW400 from the Macbook FW port?

• Asked by Christian A from Palmyra
• 10-Jan-2012