> >Very cool! Do have any info about the second part of my post? > No - I'd like to know the answer to that too (i.e. could you put this drive in a FireWire enclosure and use it externally without losing any functionality ?). Cheers, Paul P.S. After my initial success I'm having some "issues" with the drive now - I now get a kernel panic at boot with the drive connected (although this didn't happen initially). I suspect I may need to change a jumper on the drive, or it may just be that having the bare drive sitting on top of the motherboard (with an empty DVD case for insulation) is causing electrical and/or thermal problems. I'm hoping that the OP (Sean Collins) will be back soon with more information on how he installed his drive. --