[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[Simon Stewart]

Not only, is it a good consumer technology, but when it comes to
hooking digital video cameras and all that bumph to a computer, it's
the most sensible (and indeed, often only) connector to use.

Anyone know how good the firewire drivers under Linux are nowadays?
Anyone on this list actually using them? Want to hear more ;)

Was going to have a minor rantette about email clients that don't
allow for inline quoting (like mutt uses by default) but insist on
quoting the entire email below the reply, thus making it impossible to
continue multiple threads of conversation within the same email, but
firstly it's far too early in the morning, secondly, I haven't got
enough coffee in my system yet, thirdly, I've been lumbered with that
kind of client frequently enough to have sympathy[1] and fourthly, I
suspect it'd lead to a flamewar, and that's just a waste of
bandwidth....[2]


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:51:16PM -0000, jim at lateral.net wrote:
> Hi Harry,
> 
> Firewire has been used by Apple for some years now very similar to USB but
> much better through put equivalent to IDE I think.  You can get Fire wire
> hard drives printers and other stuff as well. and of course Apple's new
> iPod has fire wire plus you can boot your Mac from it.  Fire wire PCI cards
> are available for PCs.
> 
> Good Technology at least in a consumer environment I believe.  If you are
> going to the fairs on Saturday I meet up if you like last time I was there
> they had SCSI 16x burners for 99ukp burn proof I think but I have a
> sneaking suspicion they were priced wrong.
> 
> Peace Jim
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at framestore-cfc.com]
> >>
> >> For big systems and storage arrays it is a different matter.
> >>
> >> My favourite book of the moment is "Building Storage Networks"
> >> by Mark Farley.
> >> He discusses IDE on page 41 - and only devotes 1/2 page to it.
> >>
> >> Interestingly enough, he then discusses Firewire.
> >
> > How many pages does he devote to this ;-). I know bugger all about
> > firewire so if anyone would like to elaborate on the various merits
> > catches or personal experiences of the technology it would be good
> > reading.

Cheers,

Simon

[1] Can we all say "Groupwise" and skip the entire thread in lieu of
    the one in the archive?

[2] Fsck. The jusitifcation for not ranting is the longest part of my
    email. I shall now go outside and hang my head in shame for such
    sloppy netiquette :)

-- 
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug