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Multi-Bay FireWire IDE Enclosure
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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Has anyone heard of a FireWire enclosure that will accept multiple IDE/ATA drives?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Brick, NJ
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Originally posted by Paul S:
Has anyone heard of a FireWire enclosure that will accept multiple IDE/ATA drives?
No, but that would be nice 
I'm about to buy my 2nd ADS case.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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anybody have any new info on this? I have seen them out there, but they always seem to come with the drives in them, which is not what I am looking for.
thanks,
-dev
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Zip, Boom, Bam
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Buy an old SCSI 2-bay enclosure. I find them a lot a comp shows, and pretty cheap since they are not much in demand now. You can probably find them on eBay or someplace on line.
Then buy a dual-channel ATA to Firewire bridge board designed to fit in the old SCSI cases, such as: This one.
Use a dual device ATA cable, and you're in business.
I've built a number of Firewire external CD-RW + Hard drive, dual hard drive, dual optical(whatever people need) drive units for various business associates, using SCSI enclosures and bridge boards I get from a source here in southern Cali who gets the boards directly from Asia. (So I can get bridge boards a heck of a lot cheaper than the above source, making the dual items worth building).
Anyway, the supply of older SCSI enclosures is the problem right now. I'm looking into getting some newer style enclosures in Taiwan made from pre-existing molds and modified to support more than one bridge board and more than 2 devices, as well as some sleeker 2-banger devices. It's actually amazingly easy to get whatever the hell you want manufactured/modified to fit a product you want to sell if you've got buyers and a few contacts... ack but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Zip, Boom, Bam
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Wow... $527.00 for a 2 bay enclosure? $100 just for the case and power supply? $289 for an IBM 60 gig HD!!?!!??!! No wonder I've been making out like a bandit on this stuff.
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