Cheryl, yeah I'm laughing, you sound like me. I actually got myself
the enclosure and put a drive in. I chose to partiton and format the
thing since it didn't seem to and of course jernal a Linux file
system. You should be able to go ahead and use it as it, but I'd
check on how its setup with Disk Utility first. The other port is for
connecting another firewire device from what I gather. I have an
extra on my drive as well. I don't know other than devices such as
drives, what is available for firewire. I understand firewire is
better for drives than usb, but that's another debate I guess...grin
Scott
On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Ok, I can hear everybody laughing because this isn't what I said I
was going to get!!! I took back the headphones; I decided not to
get a bluetooth module because we don't really need bluetooth on
Rachel's computer yet; I didn't get a printer because I didn't
think I had researched it thoroughly enough and thought I might
have to spend more money than I have at the moment. so I got a
firewire external hard drive so I can have all the audio files
available to me that were on the linux box I'm giving away.
The drive connected and plugged in and the "EXTERNAL" icon is on
the desktop and I can find it using terminal under /volumes. It's
supposed to be optimized for the Mac, but can I go ahead and create
directories and put files on the drive, or do I need to check in
disk utility to make sure a journaled filesystem is running, etc?
Also, I notice there's a spare firewire port on the external drive.
What do people usually end up using that for?
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
