SCSI vs IDE vs FIREWIRE/USB

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Firewire works great. We use an Iomega Peerless (only 20 GB) and it
transfers at 15 MB per second. As to USB, you will want USB 2 for similiar
speed.

The only problem I have had with firewire disks on Linux is getting an sbp2
device driver that loads ok. I have also had trouble if the firewire disk is
attached at boot time. Seems a pointer is uninitialized in the firewire
release driver release I am using. If you get past that part, the disks do
seem to work fine.

We use this to move data from vehicles to an office, where the data may be
used by any number of OSs. It really works ok.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:09:36 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
> some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
> 
> Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor
> and then plugging things in (along with the appropriate drivers)? Is it
> worth the extra cost?
> 
> Are there easier/better alternatives like firewire/usb peripherals?


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