Is there any way for firewire to supply power to an external 3.5 drive without another cord?

RockGuitarDude

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Is there any way for firewire to supply power to an external 3.5 hard drive without another cord?

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Eug

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Basically... Nope. I suppose it's possible to hack something up to work with a high powered Firewire port and a lower powered 3.5" drive, but there are no Firewire-powered 3.5" enclosures for a reason. 3.5" drives in general simply suck too much power.