On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:03:39PM -0700, Garl Grigsby wrote: > I am just now starting to dig into Firewire. I have found that the > Oxford 911 chipset (ide to firewire bridge) appears to be well > supported. Now I simply need to find a external case that uses this > chipset and a Firewire card that has solid Linux support.
http://www.pcmicrostore.com/CBC.aspx?q=b:1477;c:36232 These have the advantage of being dirt cheap, but not being too annoying to work with. I wouldn't put a 10 krpm drive in the Triumph Diamond combo USB2 and Firewire enclosure mentioned on that page, given that I can tell that the enclosure is touchably warm on a 7200 drive in my air-conditioned room, but it's an enclosure for IDE drives, and I have yet to see 10 krpm available in IDE. Note, the enclosure in question is really small, but only because the (proprietary!) power brick is external. Still, for $35 and an Oxford 911, what do you want? (You'll bleed for Oxford 922 and Firewire 800..) Now 10 krpm IS available in SATA, and if you have a more roomy enclosure, that may be fine. I really don't like the Highpoint e.SATA use of 4 to 6 firewire, but at least I know where to get the cables. The claim made in one review was that there was no standard and Highpoint seems to be establishing the use of the firewire cable. Bull. I've seen alternative enclosures that use this sort of thing from just about everyone else: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=17-155-101&ATT=External+Enclosure&CMP=OTC-C173T That looks to be a normal unpowered SATA cable to me. Unless it were simply an external power supply and passthrough, though, I see no reason to buy any more devices which support IDE drives. SATA is getting quite affordable quickly. =) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
