On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 09:44 PM, David K wrote:
The question is: what is my limiting factor in selecting a device to be housed
in this unit insofar as the Mac is concerned? The enclosure uses the Oxford-911
chipset for Firewire (which I hear is good, for use with Macs).
I read somewhere about the Oxford 911 chipset. I got the impression the person who wrote it was thinking too much, but it should work fine with your Mac... ;)
Is finding a CDRW with software that supports Mac the only limitation? Or are
there also hardware incompatibilities to worry about? If the latter, is there a
particular chipset in the CDRW drives I should look for (or look to avoid)? If
not, is there some nice list on some nice website showing which third-party
(non-Apple) drives play nice with Jaguar?
Not sure of a way to check to see if that enclosure will work with 10.2.x, however, I suspect it will. If not, there is always Roxio Toast.
So as to pass along my good deal -- $49 (USB 2.0 / Firewire-400 drive enclosure):
http://www.dealsonic.com/bymecoidetof.html?AID=8256927&PID=552179
This is about right for an external box. Keep in mind that if you want to use the USB side of the enclosure that older Macs are USB 1.1. USB 2.0 doesn't appear on the Mac side until the G5. I think 2.0 is backwards compatible. It'll work, but it'll be slow.
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