On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:02:13 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:45:37AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:32:53 -0800 > >Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:17:24AM -0700, Collins wrote: > >> >Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.? > >> > > >> >I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. > >> >Obviously I will need to add a firewire adapter to the box and > >software.> > >> I'm using an Adaptec unit (downstairs so I can't see the model). > >> > >> When I was in CompUSA last week, I saw some adapters that have both USB > >2> and FireWare on the same PCI card. > > > >USB2 is about 5-10% faster than firewire. In practice, they are roughly > >the same in thruput. I am just waiting for the 800 mbit version of > >firewire. If it is still on. I am guessing that USB2 will kill the > >current firewire. Unless the proposed double speed version ever makes it > >to product. > > 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. This could be. I just bought an Iomega Peerless for backup. It is available with two small hardware interfaces: one for firewire and one for USB2. I opted for the firewire because (1) I had a card in the box already, and (2) I do not have the USB2 drivers for Linux installed. Just updating the sbp2 driver in Caldera 3.1.1 to a stable one was a PITA. There are ordering problems for loading the device drivers and connecting the disks. Adding a new device driver (USB2) to Caldera's patched kernel surely would not be easier. Something tells me, by all the firewire/USB2 combo thing out there, that the two are more similar electrically than one may think. I have never checked. -- +····························+·······························+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · +····························+·······························+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
