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sorry to say that: i do not recommend bus powered hard drives, if you have more then one on the bus (usb or fw) you get strange crashes or freeze effects because of the limited power available on the bus system!which causes hds to fail/corrupt James On 09/01/2010, at 7:15, James Devenis

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Hi James, I've got cases from Zytech before. http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=EN25 Good products and good service! Gav On 09/01/2010, at 7:15 AM, James Devenish wrote: > > Speaking of which, > > Wishfully thinking, does any know of any economical, porta

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Speaking of which, Wishfully thinking, does any know of any economical, portable, bus-powered external FireWire 800 enclosures for 2.5" hard drives? James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

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Talking Firewire 800 & 400 I recenty picked up two Vantec NexStar MX dual bay drives with 2 x FW800, 1 x FW400 and 1 x USB. Having a 27" iMac with one FW800 port and wanting to connect by FW to an old PowerBook G4 with only FW400 I thought I may be needing a FW800->400 cable. Apparently not. C

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Hi Neil, Thanks for the reply, also thanks to Paul, Joe and Mark for their ideas. My WD did come with one cable, FW400 to FW800, this worked for a short while from my MacBook 400 port but then either the cable or the port stopped functioning. I have been using USB vrom both the Macbook

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Hi John, I¹m surprised the WD drive didn¹t come with a FW800 cable (both my WD drives, so far, came with both FW & USB cables). However, I¹ve found places like Austin computers (Osborne Park) generally carry a good range of cables ­ though their site at present only seems to show FW400 and FW800

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Dick Smiths should have them I¹ve certainly seen them at the city store a earlier last year. Failing that NextByte will stock them On 8/01/10 9:49 AM, "John Thompson" wrote: > Interesting article James. > As an aside to this, I have a Mac Mini (2.53GHz, 4 GB ram, Intel Core 2 Duo) > which has o

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Greetings! give Danial Kerr a calll at Mac Wizardry @ 04 1479-5960 and Craig or Rob @ Max Style 80 9367-4691 Cheers, Joe On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:49 AM, John Thompson wrote: > Interesting article James. > As an aside to this, I have a Mac Mini (2.53GHz, 4 GB ram, Intel Core 2 > Duo) which has o

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Of John Thompson Sent: Friday, 8 January 2010 9:49 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: firewire vs usb Interesting article James. As an aside to this, I have a Mac Mini (2.53GHz, 4 GB ram, Intel Core 2 Duo) which has one Firewire 800 port. I also have a WD MYbook 600Gig external drive which

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Interesting article James. As an aside to this, I have a Mac Mini (2.53GHz, 4 GB ram, Intel Core 2 Duo) which has one Firewire 800 port. I also have a WD MYbook 600Gig external drive which has two Firewire 800 input ports. My question; where can I purchase an appropriate Firewire 800 cable to

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why apple is using fw800 interface http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/185415/ firewire_vs_usb_which_is_faster.html quite interesting read James SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http: