On 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? They sell USB drives that do the exact same thing. with USB, it's just another USB Mass Storage device.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500