Can any one tell me if Sony's Firewire CD rw is compatible with Toast? Also if has anyone tried the Sony product could you tell me if you are having success with it? Thanx.

I have the Sony Firewire CDRW drive and Toast 4 (had it for roughly two weeks). Both work just fine together. I've thus far created a MacOS disk and ISO disk. You may see a warning…

Does it work with Retrospect as well?

kloda...when you purchased the firewire CD RW did you get Toast with it? If so where did you get it? -Mike

I received a response from Adaptec yesterday saying that Toast 4.0 does NOT support 1394 devices. I replied and said that someone was actually using toast with a sony 1394 CD RW a…

Most likely the "E" stands for EIDE. tooki

Has anyone seen a good review of all the new Firewire drives out right now?

The only version of Toast that I know of that supports FireWire CDR(W) drives is Toast 3.8.2. I got it with my drive which came from EZQuest (www.ezq.com). I'll have a review of t…

i gotta new imac DV and my printer won't work! installed the drivers just like i did on my old imac/266 (which worked fine), but when i try to print, i get a sys error -192 . i'…

I was hoping to be able to use my old style writer 2 with my new imac. Is this possible? I didn't see a style writer icon in the chooser and would need some sort of adapter to conn…

I believe that someone was selling an adapter that went from Stylewriter to Ethernet. I'll look for it, just wanted you to know that it was possible... I found it! Farallon makes…

I have set up two original imac's to use Stylewriter II printers using Keyspan's USB to serial adaptors. If you're crunched for desktop space, the stylewriters can do very nicely, …

If you still have an old serial port Mac, connect the Stylewriter to the old Mac, and the two Macs together by ethernet. I did this with an iMac, and LC and a Stylewriter II. Works…

Hey SteveH, Your suggestion sounds like the best option for me. I have a Performa 430 which is based on an LC II. Can you tell me how to connect it to my new iMac as you have done …

you'd need an ethernet card for that 430, it has no enet built-in... PDS comm slot enet card, farallon makes a 10/BaseT for about $60-70 new, maybe you can find one used... then a…

Wow. I LOVED my old StyleWriter II. When I sold my G3 beige minitower and bought a B&W G3 I sold my SWII and got a Epson 740i -- and I LOVE IT MORE! Really, you're doing yours…

In desperate need of extra drive space I shelled out a pretty penny for a 9GB external LaCie drive in a d2 case. Performancewise its alright. No problems. But the noise this thi…

First you must determine whether it is the drive or the fan that is making the noise: if it is the former, putting the drive to sleep will help, if it is the latter, then you might…

Its most definitely the drive. When I get up close to it I can hear 2 distinct sounds - the drive spinning and the fan. The fan noise is not bad but the drive has this constant d…

I got an email from a helpful user. He suggests placing the drive in a larger drive casing or piece of furniture with bubble wrap or styrofoam egg carton in between the two. Does…

Try taking the case apart and putting rubber washers between the the case and the hard drive. You might have to get longer screws. That will help isolate the drive from the soundin…

This is what I have done. Works very well for anyone interested. I cut out the back section of my desk which lies behind one of my drawers and removed the back end of the drawer.…

Hello, I have an old SCSI Zip drive, which I originally used with my old Quadra 660AV. I got a G3 All-In-One (AIO) last December, and have been using the Zip with it. As you may kn…

Allow me to answer myself. No. Asside from the fact that internal drives have to be sealed, which the de-cased Zip is not (obvious in 20/20 hindsight: i forgot about that rather la…

do you like the QUE! drive? i've been considering many usb cd-rw's for my lime wonder, but i think i've settled on the QUE!. I would apprieciate any thoughts, good and bad that you…