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Firewire card compatibility under W2000
I was considering an external HD but then spotted that the internal ones 20-50 GB are quite reasonable on ebay. Anyone got any thoughts on these options. Which are the good makes to look at - which to avoid. Any compatability issues etc? Does buffer size matter ? Ease of fitting? etc.

MAC G3 External HD Problem
Virtually any PATA HD off the shelf will be compatible w/ the IDE controllers on your mobo. The only issue you typically see are these addressing limits, which manifest themselves as limits on the maximum HD you can install and still address ALL of it. ...and about external hard drives, I know my father would still

Hard drive compatibility, mixing makes, etc
My current configuration is as follows: 1 color Toucam, 1 b&w Toucam, and a PCMCIA USB2 card for my external 80 GB hard drive. All data going to the external hd. Should I upgrade to firewire with the PCMCIA card, would I be able to take advantage of the faster frame rates (15, 25, 30 fps) with the Unibrain and

External HD (Jaz) as boot disk
Quantum Lightning 365 MB external HD (with termination switched on, at SCSI address 2) on which I have installed System 7.0. Termination is "switched on;" As Macs became more sophisticated, the ROM code in the HDs was changed to perform other functions and, at some point, compatability with the Plus was lost.

CD ROM Driver and External HD for SE ?
none n...@none.com comp sys mac hardware storage Greetings, I've got an external hd that I formatted into 3 HFS+ volumes with fwb toolkit 4.0. I chose toolkit over the mac hd setup on the advice of many mac people. I was told that fwb's driver was better than Apple's, that compatability wasn't an issue.

HELP!! MacBook Pro OSX and Powerbook OSX Compatibility?
Can one connect the camcorder to a firewire port on the PC which is connected to a USB2 HD and edit directly onto this? Is USB2 a good way to go? Will all new PCs and laptops have USB2 in the near future? It seems to be marginally faster than Firewire too, and backwards compatible with all the older PCs so surely a

Sunday Ticket
And, by the way, if you like ... I already have a WORKING 16-bit Windows 3.11 to fit in virtual memory, upon bootup with either a boot floppy or bootable CD, and further ... it recognizes my FAT32 drives. Your move. I'd still like to have some USB DOS access for a printer, an external HD, maybe a scanner.

Flaky Firewire connection to external hard drive in Win XP
I *know* Minix is a much better filesystem, but there is a need for compatibility I cannot avoid. Sources to Linux VFAT exist at the following address and could 2) Was there ever an Atari external HD floppy drive? I am aware of SF314 DSDD and SF354 SSDD, but was there any DSHD? --- Please Cc your reply through

Upgrading to Win98 SE - remove IE6?
The first time it concerned a MPEG3 player and this time it's a external HD (working cos it is installed on the second O/S) The first installation may have a compatibility problem as a lot of peripherals are installed. Nevertheless, I'd like to know what are the most common issues stopping Windows from recognizing

External HD choice
Hi all, I just bought a WD 250 External HD for backup purposes. I just read in the documentation that it "is preformatted as a single FAT 32 partition for compatibility with all Windows operating systems..." My XP Pro system is formatted in NTFS. Is this going to create a problem with an image of my system backed

Firewire for laptops? (pcmcia 1394 cardbus for Toshiba)
As the subject states can I install solaris 10 on an external HD? I What kind of external HD? I don't know if it really works on USB that well. read somewhere in the past that it can be done but aI Either there is a problem on the DVD, or there is a problem with the compatibility with the drivers/bios/hardware.

Purchasing a new 1.0 - 1.5 GB HD
Andy Lee hsueh...@yahoo.com comp sys laptops I have just recently had the via chip compatibility problem with pyro 1394 drive kit. If you just want to connect external hard drive or CD-RW then almost any FW pccard would do. If you want to connect both and record to external CD-RW from external HD,

Adding an external HD
This was at least partly to maintain compatibility with the Windows Me machine, for file sharing. The archives are not large enough to run into the limits of FAT32, Also, try downloading large, zipped files to your primary hard drive, unzip them and then copy the files over to your external hard drive.

Successful bare metal restore
... sham...@techie.com (David C.) said: clw <ne...@home.org> writes: I need an external HD for daily storage of scanned pictures prior to burning to DVD. urge to carry it along to connect it to another machine. Many more have usb2 than FW. I'd get FireWire for home/daily use plus a USB2.0 port for compatibility -j.

Upgrading older MACs [HELP]
But I've lost most confidence in the reliability of CD burning (and recently bought both an external HD and an external 750MB zip drive). While I now know Easy CD Creator The lack of compatibility with CD software is appalling! It looks as though either the tech was in neverland or you did not understand.

STFM: Connecting HD drive & reading DS DD floppy disks
Exactly, is does write at the same time to a external HD, and it works with a Lacie DVD +R external burner. ( another Cantar user told me ) . ( 5 years i 'll guess ) The new generation machines (with firewire compatability) will finally force universal post acceptance. finally... Funny. Some post houses adopted

Windows can't find driver for external HD nor MPEG player
I'm interested inprotecting data in transit (to another machine) and in archive on CD-R & CDR-W media written on a Yamaha 2x2x6 SCSI drive using Adaptec's Direct CD 1.0.2 and Toast 3.55 on a G3 233 desktop running 8.1. The G3 has and IDE HD , SCSI Syquest, SCSI external HD, and the CDR-W drive.

K2000 / SCSI / PC Compatibility Question(s)
RW nd...@youraccount.organ alt sports football pro miami-dolphins Could you take an external HD, hook it to your Tivo for recording and then plug it into The only thing to watch out for is compatibility with other DVD players. Nothing worse than making 10 copies of a home video compilation on DVD to give to

USB or Firewire external HD?
MacBook Pro OSX and Powerbook OSX Compatibility? I have an external drive. I also have a MacBook Pro and a Powerbook Titanium. I want them both to boot and run apps from the same external drive (not at the same time of course). On the EXTERNAL HD... can I install Tiger from the MacBook Pro Install DVDs --- and then

USB CDRW Causes System Crawl/Instability...
Clint Neufeld no-...@nowhere.invalid alt sys pc-clone dell Personally, I'd go with a USB 2 drive for compatibility. If you need to plug your drive into any other I have a new Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with a 30GB HD. I would like to run an external HD for backup and photo storage, perhaps up to 160GB in size.