[MacDV] Re: External FireWire Drives

[Scott Baldwin]

Here is some info on firewire 800:

http://www.barefeats.com/fire35.html

Scott


On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Rob Lewis wrote:

> The 922 chipset supports the old 1394a and the new 1394b standard 
> (referred to as "FireWire 800" by Apple). I don't know if it offers 
> any benefits when using 1394a, but 1394b is the wave of the future.
>
> FireWire Depot (fwdepot.com) is having a $10-off special on their Ice 
> Cube 800 enclosure. $170, 922 chipset, accepts any 3.5" IDE hard 
> drive, offers both 1394a and 1394b ports as well as USB 2.0/1.1. Other 
> World Computing sells what looks like the same product for $180.
>
> On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 05:31 US/Pacific, Macintosh Digital 
> Video List wrote:
>
>> There is a new chipset, oxford 922.  I'm not sure what it offers.  
>> What
>> is of more interest to me is the ability to handle drives larger than
>> 128GB. (ATA 6?)  Macsales has two models of enclosures with the older
>> oxford 911 chipset, one which will support the larger drives, and one
>> which will not support it.
>>
>
>
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