"David R." wrote:
> I'm watching this thread due to my recent experience with not getting > sufficient power to support a new external (bus powered) firewire and usb > laptop drive enclosure. snip ----- Thanks for your comments, David - Having come across info on running bus powered devices and potential pitfalls, I never considered driving such things as hard drives from the firewire port. Operating a compact flash card reader, however, may be less troublesome. The S900 has been carefully guarded since Day 1 (new) with voltage stabilized UPS and I have yet to run into any gremlins. Since I am having to mail order the firewire card reader due to a lack of local source, I am seeking info from folks who may have run such a device off a firewire PCI card. I have the following cards and not sure which ones are actually drawing current or maybe all PCI cards do. Inito Miles UW. Sonnet Tempo ATA/66. Machfire Firewire (3 external/ 1 internal) Ultimate Rez 8 mb. Only thing connected to the Machfire is a self-powered firewire HD. I have posts at another user group (for photogs) and hope to hear something. Alan -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
