David [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on
3/29/02 4:03 AM -----
>>> Rather than a card, get a Firewire Plus drive from APS Technogies...
>>> that's
>>> a switchable Firewire/USB drive. I got one to hook to our iMac, and it
>>> works great.
>
>>Wouldn't he need a card for his 7300 in order to use that drive? The
>>7300 doesn't have firewire or USB; it has only SCSI.
>>--Michelle
>
>I know that there are tradeoffs to any solution for this older Mac. I
>could go pure SCCI, but the trade off with that is the cost.
Two quick points:
(1) Are you planning to stay with a Mac? If so, get a dual
USB/Firewire card and start getting USB and Firewire hardware. That way
when you do finally retire your 7300, you will have minimized the legacy
hardware. OS X drivers for SCSI cards for G3 and G4 Macs do exist, but by
definition they are going to go away, and "break" under a subsequent
version of OS X.
(2) I join Michelle in endorsing LaCie's Firewire/USB CD/RW drive.
I'd been leery of LaCie products for 15 years, after a bad experience.
That seems to have been a mistake. The new drive is very nice, very fast
and very reliable. And it _smokes_ with iTunes compared to my elderly APS
drive.
Jim DeWitt
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