"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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In article
writes:

I'm wondering if one could pull the HD from an HD24, hook it to one of
the Wiebetech Firewire DriveDock thingies, and mount the drive on a
computer? Or would Alesis' propirietary file format bite one?

Nope, part of what's in the Alesis Firewire dock is firmware (I guess)
to talk to the disk drive and pass the data on to the computer in
"normal" format.

Mike, if you're talking about the Alesis Fireport, that's not true.
Hardware-wise it's just a IDE-to-Firewire adaptor that accepts the same
drive caddies as the HD24. It comes with software to run on the computer
that can read the proprietary file format. The software can read any
Alesis-formatted disk connected via Firewire.

Hal Laurent
Baltimore