Mike Rivers wrote:

peakester writes:

I've been trying to sort out what you and Mike are saying. Are you
using the IDE to firewire gadget from smalldog with the Alesis HD-24 or
are we still in theory.

In theory, and bantering about buying somnething sight-unseen on line
vs. the desire to look at it before buying. From what I can tell from
the Weibetech (don't trust my spelling)

Wiebetech

web site it plugs directly on
to a bare drive. So in order to use it with the Alesis drive (or in my
case, the Mackie) it would have to be removed from its carrier. That's
only a couple of screws and takes just a few seconds, but it's one
more tug on the ribbon cable inside the carrier, so it probably takes
a little off the life of the carrier assembly. That may or may not be
significant. I haven't had one fail yet.

Are you using it just as a general data transfer unit?

That's how the discussion started. I was asking about how to clone the
drive in my laptop computer if I wanted to replace it and not have to
re-install everything. The suggestion was to use Norton Ghost and back
up the drive using a Weibetech firewire adapter.

About how much was it?

I saw it for $100 at eCost.com but it's not clear what package that
is (what software, if any, comes with it). Direct from Weibetech, it's
$139 with some sort of backup program.

Here's a link to Wiebetech's page of their Drivedock products.

http://www.wiebetech.com/products.php#drivedockproducts

I bought the FireWire Drivedock without the backup software from
Smalldob Electronics for $115 + shipping. This included one HD cover
plate with screws and little rubber stick-on feet.

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