<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">When I shop eBay, I see firewire external drive enclosures with and without power bricks. Can I power an external firewire hard drive from my iBook's firewire bus, or do I need an external power supply for the hard drive? My iBook is the 14" G3 600 MHz model.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Craig Foch<BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">_______________________________________________________</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain." Friedrich von Schiller</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>