Deb, You do not need any special hardware or cables. If you have USB 1.1, your devices will all run at the 1.1 speed. The beauty of USB is that you can keep adding devices and adding and adding and adding... I think the USB limit is 27 devices for 1.1 and something like 256 on 2.0.
USB and Firewire are NOT compatible. In fact they are direct competitors and have proprietary connectors on each. You are mostly correct in your assumption. You will probably have to install a driver (supplied with the drive unit) before connecting the drive. Once it's in stalled, you can connect and disconnect the drive whenever you need to. I don't personally have an external unit but I should. As a matter of fact, I use an internal unit to do my backups but used to have a Jaz drive (1GB) that I used to use for transferring files and setups between computers. That was a few years ago. Does that help? - Todd ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
