Thanks for the good info. I have not had a chance to get back to check this thread until today. The dead computer is hindering my internet access. Target disk mode: Let's see i…

Hi Doug 'Target disk mode: Let's see if I've got this right. (1) Hook the Powerbook and Imac up Firewire to Firewire. (2) Boot the Powerbook. (3) Boot the Imac with the T key down…

Thanks again I had just done some searching on the forums and found the same recommendations for DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro. Got to get a Firewire cable and order a new HD Dou…

Any SATA enclosure will support all drive sizes. For regular ATA, just look for a case with large drive support ("48 bit LBA"). That boundary is at 137GB. It either does or doesn'…

I wish Firewire enclosures for SATA drives were more readily available. There are a couple, but they're really expensive ($100+) and, for the most part, pretty ugly.

SATA is a little too new for the support chips to be as available as the "accessory" market likes. They tend to wait until the support chips are fairly inexpensive and plentiful b…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I think that SATA enclosures will start being in the "affordable" category when the SATA drive premium gets very small and a lot more comput…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Any SATA enclosure will support all drive sizes. For regular ATA, just look for a case with large drive support ("48 bit LBA"). That boundary …

That almost sounds like an artificial limitation. But I have another theory: it supports >200GB drives, but was released when 200GB was the biggest. Since it had not been teste…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Take a look at how long it was between when ATA-133 drives werer widely available and when ATA-133-compliant enclosures were avaiable for …

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki That's because of two reasons: 1) No single drive ever released can saturate ATA/100. There is zero benefit from ATA/133, besides marketing. …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I've also thought of another reason these things were slow to come out: slow acceptance of the concept that an external drive could be as si…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Maybe in the PC world. External drives have been constant companions of Macs for two decades. We are quite used to external drives being simple…

Check out this iSight discussion from Apple. http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...Hr.2@.68b34c75 Good luck.

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