No, the TR-series notebooks only have a 4-pin IEEE1394a (Firewire 400) port. So, you can’t connect it to a IEEE1394b (Firewire 800) connector. Generally speaking, while Firewire 800 (100MB/s) is not faster but rather “wider” as it provides more theoretical bandwidth than Firewire 400 (50MB/s). You’ll be hard pressed to max out the Firewire 400 bandwidth unless you’re running RAID arrays of really fast hard disks.
The TR itself can barely push out 5-6MB/s (the average hard disk throughput) and this will be the same whether it’s 400 or 800.
It’s like adding more lanes on the street. You can allow many more cars but it doesn’t mean that they can go faster as they are limited by the max speed of the cars (maximum ability of the hard disk) and speed limits (bus overhead). A car that can only go 80mph will still only go 80mph if you add more lanes. Does that make sense?
