Mullin9 wrote:
> Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds
> a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW
There are bridge boards which have a FireWire connection on the
outside and an IDE connection on the inside. Single IDE bridge
boards are used in the typical FireWire enclosures, of course. But
there are also dual and even quadruple bridge boards available.
So what you really want is a dual IDE to FireWire bridge board and an
enclosure with power supply which will hold two 5.25" devices. Then
you can put the hard drive in one of hte 5.25" bays with some rail
adapters.
Back in the days of SCSI this kind of thing was very commonly done.
The only difference now is that you need a FireWire/IDE bridge board
instead of an external/internal SCSI cable on the enclosure.
In fact, you can use an old SCSI enclosure of the proper size and just
switch the SCSI cabling with the bridge board.
Firewire Depot used to be a convenient source for the bridge boards,
but they shut down some time in the last year or so. I don't know
where is good to buy them now.
I think that Intech was a common manufacturer of the boards, so you
might search a bit on their name and on FireWire.
Jeff Walther
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