On 20 Sep 2002, Chris Frederick wrote:
> 2.  I ran into a neat little toy at CompUSA that uses a Firewire
> connection and allows you to basically have an external IDE bay.
> This looks promising in that I can get a standard HD (much cheaper
> than the USBs, or laptops), and if I needed to do more storage
> options, any IDE device would hook up to this.  My problem with this
> is Linux support.  I've never heard of this device before, and I don't
> know how linux would use this.  Would it be loaded as an IDE bay, or
> would I have to mess with FireWire settings and such?

They sell USB drives that do the exact same thing. with USB, it's just
another USB Mass Storage device..

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