"locking" FireWire800 cable

[Racer X]

I always just run the cable underneath the laptop with a big loop in it, and slap a piece of gaffers tape across the loop. Any pull is absorbed by the tape, not by the cable, or forcing the cable to bend in a tight radius.

And I have done this with the FW plugged into a PC card in a Dull laptop, on the top of a cherry picker, with @ 50' of cable hanging down to the ground.