Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits
On Aug 20, 10:46, John Summerfield wrote:
> Alexander Schmehl wrote:
>
> >Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent
> >enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large
> >drives.
> >
> >
>
> Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and puttting it in
> your old Pentium 60:-)
>
> I would expect it to work as you bypass all the IDE hardware and BIOS.
> Check that the
This was where my musings were leading me but I was unsure of the
soundness of my thoughts.
> a) The enclosure supports the size drive you want to use
> b) That the enclosure works with _your_ hardware. I have a USB2
> enclosure that works easily on boxes I plug it into but not at all when
> the boss plugs it into anything except his powerbook running OSX.
Venting my spleen at Apple again, I have had similar experiences with
strange Apple hardware incompatabilities with external hardware,
hardrives included.
>
> Also I've noted that my USB2 laptop drive comes with two cables, one for
> power. _Mine_ works with just the one, others from the same source and
> apparently the same require two. However, afaik enclosures for 3.5"
> drives require external power.
>
> Oh, if you can go a USB2/firewire enclosure, do. It gives you two
> chances to have it work, and you can plug it into a USB port and have
> it run at arount 900 Kbytes/sec which beats not working at all.
Already looking at USB/Firewire enclosures after chatting with a friend.
This is looking good for a fun project to mess about with old kit and
Debian and extending the usefulness of said kit.
Many thanks :)
Peace Jim
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> John
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