I am looking for a method to find out if my external FireWire enclosure has a FW-ATA bridge using the Oxford911 chip or not. I read many times that the Oxford is much faster and allows drives tpo put alot more through the FireWire bus than its predecessor. Can I check for this chipset with some kind of software? Disk Utility? Norton?
I have an iMac DV+ and an external LaCie FireWire disk.
The deeper reason for my wondering is that my external disk (which I use for backups) sucks. The disk is big and good as an ATA disk but as a FW disk it is just too slow.
I was thinking about using two of these disks (with the same enclosures form LaCie) and just do a RAID Level 0 (striping) to increase performance (since Jaguar's Disk Utility gives us this nice option). But, I wouldn't like to do this with a disk in an enclosure that has a sucky bridge. So I would like to check if I have an Oxford911 chipset. If so, I'll do the RAID, if not I might as well throw away that enclosure and do the RAID with entirely new enclosures that have the faster bridge.
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