[Duo2400] power for ext. firewire drives

[Larry Friedman]

On a side note, some of the laptop firewire enclosures that OWC sells 
do have the ability to plug in a wall. Not the best solution for on the 
go, but still.

~Larry


On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 04:09  AM, Ivan Drucker wrote:

> Don't know if this will be of much use, but for those who have
> Cardbus-enabled their 2400's and have iPods...
>
> I recently bought a FireWire enclosure designed for laptop drives, 
> since
> I have a few lying around and no convenient way to use them with my 
> iBook
> (and taking apart an iBook makes taking apart a 2400 look like opening 
> a
> G4 desktop). It was quite cheap actually, $28 at Super PC Parts (
> http://www.superpcparts.com/item.jsp?itemID=2083 ).
>
> Anyway, I decided to use the drive with my 2400, and discovered that I
> couldn't -- no bus power from the PC card, and the drive doesn't come
> with an AC adapter (though it does come with an adapter to draw power
> from the keyboard port on a PC laptop, and I suppose the end could be
> changed to draw from ADB instead...)
>
> Anyway, it occurred to me that the iPod power adapter provides bus 
> power
> and that's all. Just for laughs, I plugged it into the free FireWire 
> port
> on the rear of the enclosure, and the drive whirred right to life and
> showed up on my desktop. Cool.
>
> Copying stuff is SO much faster than with my old 16-bit PC card MCE
> enclosure.
>
> Ivan.
>
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