I have a 7600 with a G3 upgrade running OS 9.1 I have a Firewire/USB combo card in one of the PCI slots.
I finally have a Firewire enclosure and I have a 10 gig ATA drive currently not being used. My questions: (1) All I do is plug the ATA drive into the enclosure and then the Firewire drive into the PCI interface and it will show up on my desktop? (Assuming I have all the proper system stuff for Firewire active?) Any caveats or warnings before I move ahead with this? (2) Once it shows up can I format and partition this just like I would any other drive? (3) Assuming #2 above, if I install files on to it can I remove the drive from the enclosure and install it directly into a 6400 in the IDE slot and have it show up with all formatting and files? (4) How does the speed of Firewire through a PCI card on a 7600 or related machine compare to throughput for the internal or external SCSI buses? Or, to put it a differently way, what kind of bottleneck does using the PCI Firewire set up introduce? I am wondering here if it is fast enough for video capture and transfer without any drops. Any help that can be provided for some or all of the questions above would be appreciated. Brian -- Brian Braunschweiger Missionary with Arab World Ministries <http://www.awm.org> -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
