[Duo2400] power for ext. firewire drives

[Philip Lord]

The other thing you can do is put the iPod into Firewire mode, but the 
only problem with this method is that when copying files to the iPod 
you are using the iPods internal battery.

Phil



On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 06:09 PM, 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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