Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] firewire drive enclosure kits?

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have a Pyro USB2.0 enclosure that has housed a CDR in the past, but is 
now the home for a spare 13GB drive I use for backups at home. Using it 
on a non-USB 2.0 interface kinda sucks, but it does work...eventually. I 
plan to get a USB 2.0 card in the next day or two and I'll let you know 
how that works out...

Rick

Jonathan King wrote:

>On 8 Jul 2002, Jason McIntosh wrote:
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>>I know they also have 3.5" drive enclosures, but with a 5.25" you can
>>use a CDRW if you want.
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>The ADS Pyro thingie is clearly a 5.25" unit for that reason; I was 
>only worried about using a 3.5" drive because they hinted at the 
>cable not being long enough, which sounded...weird.
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>>But, otherwise yes, use the drive rails ;)
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>The first time I installed a CD-ROM drive back in the day, I had to
>do it into a box that had non-standard (proprietary even) rails
>which I couldn't possibly get.  All I can see is that it is
>remarkable what you can do with folded up pieces of "tractor edge"
>from those old-time tractor-feed line printers. :-)
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>>Another note - I'm assuming these work with OS X, but that's one maybe
>>you'd better do more looking just to make sure.  I've seen enough stuff
>>that is "Mac" compatible, but won't work with OS X worth anything.
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>I sent the query to one of their geeks to make sure.  The worry I
>had was the OS X 10.1 gotcha, which is a firmware issue.  Software
>(esp. kids games) can be a hassle under OS X, but I have never had
>any problems with anything else, and firewire specifically is
>supposed to be very plug-and-play on a Mac.  Guess we'll see about 
>that...
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>jking
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