[MacDV] Re: Hard drives

[ShirleyK]

I can only tell you that my drive, which did not work in the OWC case, 
came out of a Lombard PowerBook I bought new in June 1998. There might 
be another case that would work, but I decided to just use an iPod or 
my .Mac account instead.

Shirley


On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:58  AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> I have a 10 GB drive from my Powerbook and want to put it into a FW 
> case. I
> ordered one from my local Mac store but it seems perptually on back 
> order. Who
> would be a good supplier to order one from? I didn't realize there 
> might be any
> compatiblity issues how new does a drive have to be to work? I want 
> one self
> powered by the FW cable and which I can boot my PB from. Also how much 
> would
> one cost roughly?
>
> thanx
>
> Richard
>
>
> Quoting ShirleyK <ShirleyKat at cox.net>:
>
>> Just be aware that there is a 15% restocking fee - even if the product
>> fails to perform at all.
>>
>> I ordered a firewire enclosure for the 6 GB drive that came out of a
>> PowerBook. The enclosure was supposed to use the power on the 
>> FireWire,
>> but the drive never showed up on the desktop. They said my drive was
>> too old and I could buy a brick to power it. Not only did that take 
>> the
>> price way over the top, but it defeated my original purpose for buying
>> an enclosure that didn't need external power.
>>
>> I had to pay the 15% restocking fee (plus postage to return it). If
>> they had mentioned that it did not work with some older drives, I 
>> might
>> have been more cautious, but this seemed to be news to them too.
>>
>> Shirley
>>
>> On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 04:28  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:
>>
>>> Other World Computing has good drives and good service:
>>> http://eshop.macsales.com/
>>
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