[threestain]

I've got a new(ish) TiBook, and an old PC, with 16GB and 40 GB hard drives. I was wondering whether its possible to take the 40GB IBM drive out of the PC and whack it into a firewire enclosure and use it as an external drive for my powerbook. also can you daisy chain firewire stuff, as I only have one firewire port on my powerbook, but I also want to use my ipod and the drive.

[killer_735]

yeah, absolutely you can. I would recommend laying down the extra 10-15$ for a drive enclosure that also supports USB 2.0...there are a lot of Pcs out there without firewire, and it's nice to be able to move stuff around to them.

But anyway, the drive reads/writes fast as all hell, and OsX pretty much sees and mounts the drive as soon as you plug it in-no need to reformat the drive. It's an excellent setup to use with a PB.

[angelmb]

As killer_735 saids, you can, look here, they have FireWire, USB 2... enclosures, some of them with the FireWire logo are really good looking, you have a Mac, that also counts

http://www.macpower.com/

[hall]

i did the same with my ibm drive.


i bought the case at a local circuit city for 99 and a 30 mail in rebate.

its firewire and usb 2.0

its a nice enclosure. you can use cd drives in it. it has a nice cooling fan built in.

www.adstech.com

its the 1394 drive kit

[threestain]

Does anyone know of where to get them in the uk?

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by killer_735:
But anyway, the drive reads/writes fast as all hell, and OsX pretty much sees and mounts the drive as soon as you plug it in-no need to reformat the drive. It's an excellent setup to use with a PB.

As long as the drive wasn't formatted as NTFS then OS X should be able to work with it. Unless you want to use the drive on a Windows computer, you'd be better off formatting the drive as HFS+ (a Mac native format.)