well, checked with my source and he's out right now, but expects some in a few days. i'll ask him about quantity, and some of the other questions, if he has answers. his grasp of english is marginal, which is one reason i'm buying one first to run through it's paces. i may well have to put it on a faster scsi bus on a laptop to have any idea of it's speed, but that's a small problem. i'm also trying to find a drive cheap to test it with, since i don't have a lot of money to waste if this is a dry well..... i've found a small one, but there has been a suggestion (though it's from a highly, highly questionable source..) that drives over 8 gb might be a problem, but i'm hoping to pick one of those up on ebay, particularly since i won't have the adapters for awhile. with testing, mailing payment, shipping the first adapter, i probably won't know more for 2 weeks sadly, but i will let you all know if it works well or mostly works (i.e. if it only works for small drives or has problems formatting or something). i plan to be rather cautious with this, but if the first one works at all i know i can use it at least (though i'm paying a lot more for just one of course, but i really don't need a box if they aren't very good). i'll definitely see if there's an identifiable model number (assuming they weren't oem for someone), i'll also see how much of a continuing supply i can get. think good thoughts.
I could go for two or three myself, but I would like to know about your experience with testing one when you get a chance... I could loan you a couple scsi 2.5"ers if you need them to get the 'books up an running but from what it sounds like you just need the ide versions of such a drive.
Thanks
David Pekarsky
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