<br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><mark@weisler-saratoga-ca.us><jla1200@netzero.net><jla1200@netzero.net><daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us><pan.2006.09.11.00.12.27.65794@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us><daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us><pan.2006.09.11.00.24.25.220543@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Oxford Semiconductor 911 chipset,<br>universally the only way to go for PATA-to-FW400 bridging, as in an<br>enclosure. When i last went looking for one, such enclosures could be<br>obtained for ~$40 apiece, but I understand that prices have gone up since<br>then. Also worth mentioning is the Oxford Semiconductor 912 chipset, for<br>PATA-to-FW800 bridging, which I believe to be backward-compatible.<br><br>Booting OS X from FW is dead-easy and you don't really need to know<br>anything you don't already know for that. This isn't quite so with any<br>other OS, including OS
9.<br><br>When looking for a cheaper hard disk, do yourself a favor and consider the<br>brands Maxtor and Western Digital to be off-limits, no matter how much<br>cheaper they may be. Also, when getting a large hard disk, one one has the<br>potential of being forced to deal with LBA48 issues, but with the Oxford<br>911 chipset, you magically don't have to worry about any of that.</pan.2006.09.11.00.24.25.220543@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us></daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us></pan.2006.09.11.00.12.27.65794@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us></daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us></jla1200@netzero.net></jla1200@netzero.net></mark@weisler-saratoga-ca.us></blockquote>Those issues nearly had me sending more than one good drive back . Will you run it 24/7 ? <br>does it claim only 14 0's of reliability vs the standard of 15 + . re-mentioning - none of my Maxtor ever failed on me not even when i got one because it failed someone else who re-bought before it came back rma,
my fuji only failed after abuse when i shook it hard after realizing its just too tiny , and the 160g replacement WD sent is plenty good but i need to get the 80g off to them as it has too many bad sectors about 8g into the drive for w98 to use anything straddling that bad region . <br><p>
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