Mac OS X: New drive
Re: Firewire Enclosures
by dkknj - 3/25/08 6:58 PM In reply to: Firewire Enclosures by mrmacfixit
Hi mrmacfixit,
Thanks for your reply. Assuming I can still return my drive, I'll look at the sites you mentioned for a firewire drive.
On another track (which I'll need if I can't return the drive), I noticed some devices that at first glance appeared to be Firewire to USB translators. For example, see:
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=569810&Redir=1&description=Belkin-6-Port%20%20Hi-Speed%20USB%202.0%20and%20FireWire%20Hub%20for%20Mac%20mini-Switches%20/%20Hubs
Three questions:
1. Am I reading their translation capability correctly?
2. Assuming they do USB to firewire translation correctly, what is your opinion of them?
3. Are there other devices doing USB to firewire translation?
I found the receipt for my current drive. I purchased it on 2/22/2008. I'll have to check in the morning to see if I can return it.
Thanks.
Cheers!
Dave
USB to Firewire
by mrmacfixit - 3/25/08 7:15 PM
In reply to: Re: Firewire Enclosures by dkknj
I'm afraid you are reading that page completely incorrectly.
What you are looking at is a USB hub and a FIrewire hub. The Firewire and USB are completely separate and there is NO conversion going on here.
There is a Firewire in and out and a USB in and out. What goes in, comes out of the corresponding port.
USB in = USB out, Firewire in = Firewire out.
Sorry.
P
Forgot to ention
by mrmacfixit - 3/25/08 7:16 PM
In reply to: USB to Firewire by mrmacfixit
There is no USB to Firewire converter.
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Re: USB to Firewire and Forgot to Mention
by dkknj - 3/25/08 7:52 PM In reply to: Forgot to ention by mrmacfixit
Hi mrmacfixit,
Thanks for your responses. Guess I'll need to either make the return happen or live without booting from my external drive.
It would have been nice if Apple had provided a boot from USB drive on power PC systems. I hope there are not more features than are Intel only.
Thanks.
Cheers!
Dave
To be fair
by mrmacfixit - 3/26/08 5:36 AM
In reply to: Re: USB to Firewire and Forgot to Mention by dkknj
The only reason there is now USB boot support is because of the Intel processor.
I don't think it was an actual decision NOT to allow USB booting.
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Re: To be fair
by dkknj - 3/31/08 2:59 PM In reply to: To be fair by mrmacfixit
Hi mrmacfixit,
I checked with the vendor. They allow returns only within a 15 day window, which I wasn't close to. So, I'm going to live with the current drive, without a boot capability.
It's only a matter of time before I replace my mac with an Intel based one. However, nothing is urgent, and it will take some very desirable application, with Intel only support, for me to make a switch.
The newest releases of iListen (speech recognition) are available Intel only. So, if I get heavy into speech recognition, I may need to switch to an Intel platform. This hasn't happened yet.
Cheers!
Dave
Re: Firewire Enclosures
by dkknj - 3/31/08 3:11 PM In reply to: Firewire Enclosures by mrmacfixit
Hi mrmacfixit,
In an earlier post, you mentioned:
"One of the reasons that your drive worked, straight out of the box, was probably because it was formatted as FAT as opposed to HFS+ (Mac) or NTFS (Windows).
It works but is notoriously unstable."
How should I format the drive so it is stable?
Thanks.
Cheers!
Dave
Using Disk Utility
by mrmacfixit - 3/31/08 4:50 PM
In reply to: Re: Firewire Enclosures by dkknj
you would format the drive as HFS+ (Journaled) and all will be rosy for you.
BEWARE: Formatting the drive will result in ALL the data, on that drive, to be destroyed.
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