Quote Originally Posted by iTim
if it works with a normal firewire hard drive, then it should theoretically work with the iPod because all it is to the computer _is_ a firewire drive.

Thanks for the help
Theoretically as you say... Depends a lot on the chip used in the external drive, and also what chipset the host controller (in your PC). I've had far too many problems with firewire unfortunately, but I suspect that may be mostly to the implementation on my Dell laptop. Next latop for me will be an iBook I think :)

FWIW the firewire chip used in the ipod seems to be very good (got a 3rd gen 30 GB version), but inserting it into one of the free ports on my external drive crashed my PC the other day :(

Anyway, have fun :)