[MacDV] Re: new hard drives

[Kunga]

Jeff,
You should be able to get Western Digital to send you new bridges to 
fix those that broke. They have 3 year warranties don't they? ADS gave 
me a FREE upgrade to old pre-Oxford 911 bridges. No sense in letting 
those enclosures go to waste.

BTW you now want Oxford 922 NOT 911 any more. Those are the ones that 
can see and treat BIG HDs correctly. I had to initialize my new Maxtor 
200 GB drive in my dual 867 MDD and then put it in the Oxford 911 case 
for all of it to show up. Not too handy. The Oxford 922 will let you 
initialize the BIG drives on any old Mac and see them all big. It's 
like a ATA/133 card in the FW box. Good for older Macs easily seeing 
bigger drives outside.

BobLL,
It really is quite easy to install. Apple and other sites have the 
instructions on their sites with photographs. I can't tell by this copy 
where you are trying to put it in what model. If you reply with the 
details of what you are removing and where you want to put he 105, I 
will find the instructions for you.

k

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:59  PM, Jeff Fay wrote:

> I have two Firewire drives that started out as Western Digital 
> Firewire drives. The WD enclosure and Firewire bridge died within 
> about a year on both of them. The drive inside was fine; just the 
> bridge died. Since then I've had good luck with WeibeTech Desktop GB 
> USB/Firewire drive enclosures. They've got a simple case to gain 
> access to and a fan. And they'll work with either USB or Firewire. 
> Whatever you get, make sure it uses the Oxford 911 firewire bridge.
>
>>
>> 3) After all that hooha about the Pioneer DRC-105, I bought one, but
>> when I look inside to figure out how to remove the existing 
>> superdrive,
>> the task looks formidable.  Kunga seemed to think that it's easy.  
>> I've
>> searched Google for instructions with pictures with no luck.  Any
>> suggestions?