[sclug] Seagate ST3300831A-RK Barracuda 300GB 7200RPM disk

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, David Given wrote:

> On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:28, Alex Butcher wrote:
> [...]
>> Bolt a regular disc into a 20GBP USB caddy, e.g. from svp.co.uk. Ignore
>> their firewire caddies as their firewire component is pretty buggy and
>> doubly so with Linux.
>
> Can you give any more precise information? I can't find them.

<http://svp.co.uk/products-list.php?bid=0&cid=127>

> Also, any suggestions as to decent Firewire caddies? I'm currently using
> Firewire and would like to stick with it if possible, mainly because it's
> daisy-chainable.

Something with an Oxford Semiconductor chipset in it. Unfortunately, these
tend to be significantly more expensive than lose (like the ones that SVP
sell) that use the problematic Prolific ATA->USB/1394 bridge chipset.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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