On Mar 26, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Buy yet another new drive for backups if you don't have the space somewhere > else in the meantime. That disk you should effectively make read only until > you're certain all of your most important data is available, and not > corrupted.
Will do. But I guess there's no way to know beforehand if a drive enclosure supports the full ATA command set; it's 'buy it and see', unless there's some web site that tracks this sort of thing, which sounds like it would be pretty hard to do since manufacturers change product specs more often than I change my socks... The other issue is that I'm at the mercy of what's available. Due to the recent disasters in Thailand and Japan, there are so few drives available anymore. I went to Fry's and they only had 1 FW external drive (G-Drive, which I bought), on mostly barren shelves. The rest (only about 3 others) were USB. So I might not be successful in finding what I'm looking for... Thanks again! - Nate _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
