Lo,
At 19:58 05/03/2012, you wrote:
Hi Martin,
> with my enclosure search on ebay.co.uk so I managed to do a seller search
> on uk ebay and have bought one now :)
How about your Firewire enclosure, is it this one?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160684970770
No its a safecom branded enclosure:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/5-25-IDE-HDD-CD-DVD-RW-USB-2-0-Firewire-IDE-Enclosure-/260956897292?pt=UK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL&hash=item3cc23e400c
as you can see it takes optical drives as well as hard drives.
PATA only though.
The seller says it has this controller: PMC 0633 Pm39LV512-70JCE
but he cannot tell me if this controller will boot a Mac. Does yours?
I will have to find my Mac CDs to try that.
So far it works within tiger fine and the windows xp box via usb2.
My external Firewire HD had an Oxford controller and booted my G4 but
it died recently, red LED along with the normal blue one. Apparently
the disk doesn't get power anymore because it won't spin in the
enclosure but works in another one.
But the other one has an Initio controller and won't boot my Mac.
I think about getting a Freecom Quattro dock, it's quite expensive but
has eSATA, Firewire 400/800 and USB. Has anybody on this list some
experience with this dock? It accepts 3.5 and 2.5 inch SATA HDs:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freecom-35296-Hard-Drive-Quattro/dp/B004BHADPA
That does look nice and i would of picked up one apart from it
doesn't have the SD
card slot my current e-SATA dock has.
BTW the hard drive does run a little hot 7200rpm 3.5" drive when used
for a while
so if you live in a warm country it might get too hot.
Martin N
Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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