On 9/13/05, Sovereignty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric :-)
>
> You've exposed yourself as my DVD expert :-) When I'm reading specs on the
> different DVD drives, I keep hearing of 'chipsets' -- now I thinking the
> chipsets are mentioned because I've been looking at Firewire enclosures and
> Firewire externals. (Vaguely rmembering the problem an OS upgrade gave to
> some external Firewire drives...) Are you up on the various chipsets and
> why one might be better than the other?
Alas, I am a fake. You evidently know more about chipsets than I
because I'm not even sure what these chipsets are ;-). I surmise that
you mean the chips in the controllers for the FW bridge (the interface
between the IDE drive and the FireWire bus).
Nowadays there seem to be a million and one different FireWire
enclosures but I suspect that they're variations on only a handful of
themes. There will be only a few manufacturers making the chips which
allow an IDE drive to be hooked up to a FW bus but there are a million
and one little companies who are taking those "chip sets" and making
FW enclosures.
Now, this is purely conjecture! Hopefully it's correct and will at
least give you a reasonable chance at getting the right enclosure.
PS You may want to ensure that you get a dual USB/FW enclosure.
Eric.
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