[OT] Mac PPC and USB2 ?

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Wed Jun 9 14:38:06 EDT 2010


Richmond,

Send me your snail mail address, I think I have an spare firewaire enclosure
you could use. It was made in taiwan eons ago but it works, you just pop an
HD inside it and it will work.

I don't know if a shipment from Brazil to Bulgaria will ever arrive, you
might get some weird stamps in it as if the package traveled to asia,
africa, oceania, the international space station, io and more before it
reaches you but it is worth a try.

Cheers
andre
PS: I know what it is to live somewhere where hardware simply is not
available... it took eons for macbooks to arrive here...

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 06/09/2010 08:07 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>> Richmond, do you have a problem with Firewire? Even FW 400 is way faster
>> than USB2 for extended disk operations. (IMHO) USB is for mice and
>> keyboards
>> and USB sticks.
>>
>>
>>
>
> NO! I have no problem at all with Firewire; and, just as soon as I have my
> G4 up-and-running
> I am going to yank out a 750 GB ATA disk I have inside and pop it into a
> LaCie Firewire-&-USB
> external box I have.
>
> YES! Bulgaria has a problem with Firewire as (well, at least in Plovdiv)
> there are about 10 Macs in the country,
> and 4 of them are mine; so nobody sells a Firewire external thing here.
>
> Once I have hoicked out the 750 GB and got it inside the Firewire box I
> shall; glacially slowly,
> pop all my USB backup onto that - but, a USB2 card (I saw one online by
> Allegro) would
> expedite matters considerably.
>
> The 1.5 TB could then be connected up to a P4 I am currently using with
> kids I teach to do a remake
> of "Snow White and the incredibly expanding list of pupils" with puppets
> made from old socks:
> no doubt knocking everything out of competition at Cannes next year . . .
>  :)  And before you ask; the
> 'pupils', being made of socks, will be called "mouldy, manky, sweaty,
> cheesy, holey" and so on!
>
>
> "USB is for mice and keyboards and USB sticks."
>
> try telling that to some salesperson in a computer shop here in Bulgaria;
> first off, they haven't heard
> of Firewire!
>
> What is not at all clear to me is what is actually inside the Maxell Tank;
> documentation is minimal
> to say the least, and I am reluctant to open the thing up until its
> guarantee expires (2 years); but,
> for a 1.5 TB disk it is rather cheap. Should it contain a PATA or a SATA
> disk I am wondering about
> buying an empty Firewire enclosure in Britain (will be over there for 12
> days at the start of August)
> to transfer it to.
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> The whole thing, ultimately, boils down to my own stupidity. I should have
> realised that a G4 Mac at
> 7 years old just might throw a tantrum; and I should have made proviso for
> that; but didn't.
>
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