5) You can only put a single device on a FireWire "bridge" right? No
master / slave arrangement...
Buh.... don't know but given that most bridges I've seen that plebs
like us can buy are designed to be attached directly to the rear of
the drive or to piggy-back the drive with short jumper cables to the
rear plate so I'd guess not.
6) Does anyone sell FireWire "bridges" without the enclosure? I'd
love to fill an old SCSI tower with about 6 devices (all IDE) and
make it all connect via a single FireWire connection.
I was thinking of the same thing myself and Tang Computers in Main
st. Osbourne park said they could get some in. That said in the end I
just butchered some cheap ide/usb cases and a USB hub that I had in
now have a tower of 4 hard disks ... abide slow as a wet weekend
(like this one coming up I guess) but cheap as chips.
One thing to note that while USB and Firewire is hot swapable, IDE
devices on mac's doesn't seem to be hot swapable so in my case (LOL!
- bad bun) I have skid trays on two of the drives but have to
power-down the USB tower to swap the skid tray drives. With PC's
there is a driver to make IDE devices hot swapable but have not seen
an equivalent for the Mac.
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Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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9380 1855 (ECEL)
ECEL Computer Support Officer
University of Western Australia.
CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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Isumataq - an Inuit word for "an object in the presence of which
wisdom might show itself."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
Philip K. Dick
