Stuart I understand that a usb port can't talk firewire. Does it make a difference that the Seagate drive I have attached is both firewire and usb? What I was thinking about is this:
iMac firewire port to Seagate drive. Seagate drive usb to usb drive. Since the Seagate has both connections. I think I would need a usb A female to A female adapter to make the cables work. But I don't want to get all that together if the data transfer won't work.....if I said that right. Might it work? The enclosure is really interesting! I didn't know they came like that with an ethernet connection as well as usb. I could do that if I had an internal drive to use. Would rather use the one I have if I can. Probably should take it back and just get another firewire/usb dual connection one so I can use it on everything. Thanks for the help!! Ann Stuart Urbahns wrote: >If I understand what you are describing you are wanting to have a USB >device casey chain from a FireWire device. This isn't going to work. >The USB port can not talk firewire. If you are looking for a cheap >fast way to access your USB drive you can look into joining it to your >network. Look at this ebay auction. Item number 180158321105 > >Sorry no copy and paste on iPhone for me to give you a direct link. > >This box will all you to place a hard drive on your network. This way >you can make use of your high speed LAN instead of the slow usb 1.0 >port. And even be able to access from more then one device at a time . >This auction is for buy it now $49 but I'm sure with a little googling >you can find cheaper alternative. > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Sep 13, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Ann Richmond <richmond at qx.net> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, >> >>I just got a laCie 500gb usb2 external drive. I already have a Seagate >>300mb firewire/usb on that computer (iMac round base with only usb1) >>connected via the firewire port. >>Since the laCie will be pretty useless connected via usb1 port , I was >>wondering if I can connect it to the seagate via the seagate usb2 . (I >>guess I would have to find a usb cable with both ends the small square >>ones or an adapter.) >> >>Any thoughts? >> >>Thanks, >>Ann >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070913/a3d1fcdb/attachment.html
