on 3/20/03 8:43 AM, Richard Starr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's a guy on ebay that is selling firewire boxes for $50 with $14 > shipping, > buy-it-now. It's a repeating offer, so he has plenty. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3407557492&category=3757 > > Seems like a good deal and just right for that $79 120 gig drive. > > I'm tempted. > > Does anyone know how an ATA drive in one of these things is formatted? That > is, > could you just drop a formatted drive in one, plug it in to the firewire bus > and > read existing data? > > Rich
I took the drive out of an ext. Sony (firewire) CDRW last year and put both a DVD/CDRW(Toshiba) and a 40gb ata HD (IBM/MAC) and both functioned well ( the 40gb was formatted in a Giga G4 and had 20gb's data already on it). so I know that you can at least use one in a Sony case. Ralph -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
