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Turn dead Que! FW burner into a FW Hard Drive?
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I have a dead FirWire Que CD burner that I'd like to turn into a FireWire Hard drive. Can I use the enclosure and just plug-in a bare HD?
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You should be able to, as long as the case has enough power to run the drive (I'd guess it does as long as it's not bus powered). You might have to "flash" a chip or switch a block or something to make it recgonize the HD rather than a CD Drive (I think I read something about this the other day, but can't remember where). I'm building a firewire box and will see if I can use the brideboards with HDs and CD Drives without changing anything.
-Todd...
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Originally posted by Todd Corzett:
I'm building a firewire box and will see if I can use the brideboards with HDs and CD Drives without changing anything.
-Todd...
Any success with the swap? What brand box was it?
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I have a dead FirWire Que CD burner that I'd like to turn into a FireWire Hard drive. Can I use the enclosure and just plug-in a bare HD?
There was a similar query on one of the Apple boards recently and as far as I can remember there was no problem with it. The chipset in the Que! box may not be the fastest though.
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Originally posted by vmpaul:
I have a dead FirWire Que CD burner that I'd like to turn into a FireWire Hard drive. Can I use the enclosure and just plug-in a bare HD?
The bridge board in the Que is just a standard run of the mill Firewire/IDE bridge board that will run virtually any IDE device, so yes a Hard drive will work fine. (May not be a 911 chipset as someone mentioned) but there should be nothing else you have to mess with.
The real question is: in what way is the whole unit 'dead'? Are you sure the CD-RW mech is the 'dead' part, or the bridge board itself? If it's the board, then of course it won't work with anything but then you might be tossing a perfectly good CD-RW mech if you didn't realize it. Try the CD-RW in another system if you aren't sure as well as a HD in the external case.
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
(May not be a 911 chipset as someone mentioned)
The real question is: in what way is the whole unit 'dead'? Are you sure the CD-RW mech is the 'dead' part, or the bridge board itself? If it's the board, then of course it won't work with anything but then you might be tossing a perfectly good CD-RW mech if you didn't realize it. Try the CD-RW in another system if you aren't sure as well as a HD in the external case.
I'm not sure if it's the whole drive. That's a good point. I guess I could pul the burn unit and plug it into my Tower.
What is this '911' chip I read about?
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Originally posted by vmpaul:
What is this '911' chip I read about?
the Oxford 911 chip is the to-date fastest/allaroundbestperforming firewire-ide bridge chip. external firewire devices featuring it perform better than devices not featuring it. while with a [relatively] slow burner this would not matter, a slower chipset could limit the performance of a fast hard disk.
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