On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Chris Frederick wrote: > 2. I ran into a neat little toy at CompUSA that uses a Firewire > connection and allows you to basically have an external IDE bay. This > looks promising in that I can get a standard HD (much cheaper than the > USBs, or laptops), and if I needed to do more storage options, any IDE > device would hook up to this. My problem with this is Linux support. > I've never heard of this device before, and I don't know how linux would > use this. Would it be loaded as an IDE bay, or would I have to mess > with FireWire settings and such? A co-worker of mine has the firewire/IDE thingy and he loves it. It uses the firewire drivers and shows up as a SCSI harddrive in Linux. -- Clay