Compgeeks is selling a combo FireWire/USB 2.0 drive enclosure (both 3.5"
and 5.25" 

It looks pretty cool too.


-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Clay Fandre
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:58 AM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] removable storage options


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
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