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yay my thread is still here :) in case this might help someone in the future, i ended up with an acom 160gig. the biggest selling point is that it supports both usb2 and firewire. i dropped it into the usb2 card i got for my bp6 and it works just fine, abeit much slower than expected. since i now al...

just an update.. picked up my adaptec 3100 card. xp detected it right away and i have no problems hooking up usb devices to it. although in the device manager, its reading as an nec card.. not sure what kind of effect that might have, as i dont have any usb2 devices to test.. now time to pickup a dr...

amazon has the adaptec 3100 for $30 so im gonna order that in the next day or so!

what about the ext HDD that you use? is there any size limitation? or other things i should be looking out for?

awesome to know!

which adaptec card and usb drive do you use? if i go with this solution, i might as well try something that i know works (in 1 out of 1 case anyway )

hmm.. for some reason i never even looked at the usb v2.0 cards because i unconsciously assumed that with ppl having some many problems with firewire cards, it would be the same for usb. from there, i had been willing to suck it up and deal with v1.0 speeds... david -- yah you're exactly right, all ...

the thing is, speed isnt my primary concern, as i will be mainly using it as storage. at worst, if i can stream movies from it, then i'll be perfectly content (and even usb v1.0 should handle that -- i think..) and i'd also rather not spend the extra money on a controller, and then later a drive cad...

background: - currently running 3x17gb drives that i got for free... in 97 :wink: yes thats right. they're 7 yrs old :cry: since i dont want to give up on my bp6 yet, i'm thinking about buying a new HD in the 100-200gb range. i want an external for 2 reasons... 1- i want to avoid any hpt issues at a...