Mike Rivers wrote:

laurent writes:

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.

AH, OK, so software, not firmware. At least that makes the Fireport a
little more useful. You could, I suppose, use it without the Alesis
software to interface a standard FAT16 or FAT32 disk to a computer
with a Firewire port?

And now I wonder if one could use a Wiebetech FW DriveDock along with
the Alesis software to do what the Firedock does, or if the software is
tied to the Alesis gizmo.

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