I recently purchased an ADS Drive Kit that lets you put whatever drive
inside it that you so desire, and it is really easy to do. I have about
three drives that I use besides the internal two + the burner and DVD
-roms that are installed. It is USB 2.0, and will also run USB 1.x.
They also make a firewire version. I don't know about firewire stuff,
but this has been a very timely purchase for me: it works great.
Check out the link:
Spencer Stone
-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of HMSDOC@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:46 PM
To: sumtingwong@hawaii.rr.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Slightly, somewhat OT
I want to purchase an external HD to back up my my scans as well as to
back up my entire system including the OS. I just had a hard drive with
the OS crash and have lost all my preferances, patches etc and don't
want that to happen again and so the extra HD externally seems to be a
good idea for back up as well as burning my scans to CD.
I just want to make sure I understand Firewire correctly as it pertains
to getting a back up drive. I have a FireWire card installed and
working with my Polaroid SS 4000+. It has 2 ports.
Do all devices that function with Firewire have an In and an Out port so
they can be put in a chain? If put in a chain do all the devices in the
chain need to be turned on ? Is there any downside to putting them in a
chain?.
Finally, if I were to only use the external drive infrequently for back
up and used the second port for a different peripheral, can I unplug the
peripheral and plug the hard drive to that port and use it or is a
specific port somehow dedicated to a specific peripheral?
Thanks
Howard
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