10-23-2007, 07:19 PM
Larry, as I'm sure you know, there were early FW cases that supported only certain drives, and occasionally some of their derivative drives that used the same controller firmware. Doesn't sound like you sold bunches of them, but I got a couple of them from MacSolutions (R.I.P.) down the street from us here that clearly listed only certain makes and models as being supported, effectively limiting the case to 20, 30, 40, sometimes 80GB drives... I tried swapping different makes/models/capacities, and the cases would not work w/ most of those drives. As you say, it is bridge board related, not FW or computer; but if somebody got ahold of that type of case w/o knowing its limitations, I can understand the resulting confusion when they try to use it.
The funky old cases are now used to support OWC external optical drives to raise them up high enough on the top of towers to clear the handles when the tray opens. If I find the old boxes/manuals w/ the printed limitations, I'll email you a copy for reference. Thankfully the UDA (Universal Drive Adapter) I got from OWC makes swapping drives in and out of unknown cases a thing of the past, though for a while it was necessary to test for possible (hopeful) compatibility.
Buzz
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The funky old cases are now used to support OWC external optical drives to raise them up high enough on the top of towers to clear the handles when the tray opens. If I find the old boxes/manuals w/ the printed limitations, I'll email you a copy for reference. Thankfully the UDA (Universal Drive Adapter) I got from OWC makes swapping drives in and out of unknown cases a thing of the past, though for a while it was necessary to test for possible (hopeful) compatibility.
Buzz
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