Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" 
<moodymz3@y...> wrote:
> Thanks.  It just so happens that all my drives do use that chip, 
so that’s one less thing for me to worry about.
>  
> Best regards,
> John Moody
>  


You might also want to check to be sure that the firmware in the chip 
is up to date, this made my boxes go from half speed to full speed 
and allowed other options with the fast CDRW I was using at the time. 
The drive manufacturer should be able to get the firmware for you, if 
not I might still have it kicking around. One note, the OXF911 is 
firewire only, so if you have a combo USB/FW then you would have the 
Oxford 922 chip, and I don't have anything that uses that chip.

BTW, this place lists a few of the old OXF911 cases: 
http://www.coolgear.com/index2.cfm
Just click on the FirewireGear link on the left side of the page. I 
have $2000+ of enclosures with the Initio chip (FW400/FW800) coming 
for use with DV video on MACs. A little scary since I've had mixed 
results with the older Initio chip but they were one of the few 
FW400/800 enclosures that specifically mentioned working with the Mac 
machines http://www.coolgear.com/productdetails1.cfm?sku=BCICE-
2B1&cats=&catid=313,312,322,308 . The 45 Maxtor IDE drives are in the 
next room waiting for these (one per student, with 15 extra sleds). 
Yes I believe that more fans are better for the drives, and this has 
one for the drive, and one more for the entire box.

And before anyone asks, yes we did have a server for this task, but 
that's a sore subject and brings thoughts of pitchforks and torches 
to mind. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/Greg_E/mob-angry.gif

And we still aren't sure what we will be using for our music 
recording class yet, probably something in a bundle, I'll probably 
have to decide on that next week, since budgets were just recently 
approved.

And Douglas, if you wouldn't mind, could I contact you off list (or 
maybe better if you contact me since these Yahoo accounts often get 
blocked) to pick your brain about the music recording? After some 30 
years of providing Radio and Television oriented education we are 
finally putting a music recording class together, and there are still 
a few questions left un-answered, mostly about software for the PC 
platform. Any help would be appreciated.

And just to keep this on subject... Just think how many grayscale 
TIFF images you could fit on all those 45 drives (only 80GB each) ;-)