linux firewire recommendations

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:55:41PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 01/07/03 11:02, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> I'm still a bit leery of USB-anything.  FireWire has been around and well
>> supported by Apple for quite a while so I suspect it's a bit more robust.
>
>Leery about what exactly?  USB seems to be far more mainstreamed on PC 
>hardware these days.

PC hardware tends to be commodity crap, and not what I want to trust with
mission critical data.  Windows is far more mainstreamded than Linux, but
I'm not planning on running that either.

Bill
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