[MadMacs]

[Nicholas Savage]

I doubt that it would work. The ATA/Firewire bridge chips are probably not designed to work with a master/slave configuration for the hard drives. I recall reading in the specs for a vendors FW-ATA bridge that it would only support one drive. I am going to assume that is the case with most of them. Some of the bridges don't even have standard cable connectors; etc they plug directly into the back of the plug on the hard disk drive. I am also going to assume that even if the bridge could support multiple drives; the firmare on the bridge chip would have to be written to handle it. . . .Most companies buy these units and do this themselves.

so probably no.

[tr]

actually, it might work, but it may depend on the bridge board. i say this because granite digital sells a bridge board that does exactly what you want, and from the pic, it doesn't look like there is a separate controller for each drive. check it out:
http://www.granitedigital.com/catalo...idgeboards.htm

i have the single bridge board, and it works great(i use it for an internal firewire drive in my sawtooth) . i should try to see if i can get a gender change/IDE cable to plug into it, so i can try hooking up two drives.

tr