External FireWire Drives

[Rob Lewis]

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.
>