Enclosure Question

[LighthouseJ]

Some of you may remember that I asked about a drive enclosure for my DVD recorder. I got a Firewire and USB 1.1/2.0 enclosure and it works great. To the real problem, I have an 80GB hard drive I want to use on my laptop

On the back of the DVD enclosure, there are two connectors for Firewire, one is connected to my laptop. If I get a firewire enclosure for the hard drive, can I simply connect the hard drive enclosure to the second Firewire connector on the DVD recorder and daisy chain the two together and it's all good?

[freestyler]

I've had no problem daisy-chaining 2 external firewire drives. Worked quite nicely.

[rallynavvie]

Yes, that's pretty much what that extra port is there for. I can't recall for sure but I think you can chain up to 32 FireWire devices. Or maybe it was 16. Either way that's a lot of devices.

On a related note, has anyone seen extra-deep FireWire enclosures? I'm looking for ones with maybe 10" of drive depth but just plain ATA/133 capable.

[RabidDog]

AFAIK its 255 devices you can have daisy chained... Might be a bit much to have them all going at the same time.
Hex FF binary 11111111. trinary 100110

[808smokey]

trinary 100110

What is Trinary? Never heard that.

I've only heard of:
Hexidecimal
Binary
Binary Coded Decimal
Octal

When it comes to basic computer language.

[LighthouseJ]

here's some help on what Trinary (http://xyzzy.freeshell.org/trinary/) is, it's basically binary with a third choice, so to count in trinary is 0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100, 101, 102, 110, etc...

anywho, thanks for the answer, I had a good idea but I wanted to be ultra-sure.