usb: disable

[ronnie gauthier]

firewire has lots of goodies. some not mentioned much. you can find
smaller cables that are 10M not 4.5M. You can also use fiber and go to
700M if needed. The hubs can be used as repeaters and can chain to 70M.
Look at your intended device and see if it is 4 or 6 pin before you get
a hub or cables. The new 1394B specs say 3.2Gb/s transfer rate, right
now tops is about 390Mb/s.
Sony digi-cams and vidio-cams have firewire(i.link) as do most every
sony desktop and laptop. 2 port cards can be found for under $40.


On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:02:56 -0500 - Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com>
wrote the following
Re: Re: usb: disable

>This sounds great. I asked a while back about increasing the number of
>ide drives, but I didn't get much encouragement from the list. I will
>have to look into this.
>
>Thanks,
>Joel
>
>On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:28:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:57:31PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> >Does this work with linux?
>> 
>> Didn't I say I was using it with Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0?  Last I looked
>that> qualifies as Linux :-).
>> 
>> Under Mandrake 9.0, the appropriate ieee1394 modules are loaded
>> automatically including spb2 which is needed for the automatic device
>> selection.  In fact, the mdk9.9 installation routines found the
>FireWire> disk before it found the SCSI hard drive, assigning it as
>/dev/sda which> wasn't exactly what I had in mind.  I turned the drive
>off during> installation, then after everything was installed and
>booted normally, I> turned the drive back on, and mounted it.  I
>haven't tried rebooting the> system with the external drive on.
>> 
>> >Joel
>> >> > When was the last time you looked at FireWire pricing?  I bought
>an Adaptec> >> > FireConnect 4300 PCI card at CompUSA about a month ago
>for about $50US, an> >> > external ADS chassis for $99.95, and a Maxtor
>120GB IDE drive for it for> >> > another $99.95.  I bought an external
>120GB LaCie drive about six months> >> > ago at an Apple store for
>$350.00US.> >> 
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