jimwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'm on the verge of purchasing a HDI-30 SCSI Disk Adapter >(from a real nice person here!) to backup between my OS 8.1 PB 190 and OS >9.1 6320 to get away from this lame snail-slow printer port file sharing >bit and I just want to re-confirm a safety issue regarding the SCSI limit. > I understand that there's supposedly a 4gig drive limit to using >SCSI to avoid data corruption on the host computer, but even though my PB >190 has a 30gig Travelstar aboard, I partitioned it into eight partitions >of 3.4 gigs each, and my 6320's 10gig Western Digital HD is partitioned >into 3.2 gig partitions, so that should well get me under this 4gig SCSI >limit, right? Can I suggest another, _safer_ solution? An inexpensive ethernet PC card would give you the speed you crave without significantly endangering your 30GB drive. The well known >4GB SCSIDisk bug will almost certainly find a way to hose your 'Book's drive at some point regardless of how careful you are to write inside the drive's first 4 gigs. As others have noted, the 4 gig issue remains no matter how you've partitioned the drive.
Plus, you'll be pleased to know enet file copies are nearly as fast (faster even maybe?) as you'd get using the scsi-disk method, the scsi bus on these old 'Books is _very_very_ slow. Does the 6320 have an ethernet card? If no, you can use either an LC-slot enet card or (both can be used at once actually!) a CommSlot 1 card. Either type costs very little nowadays. For a PCcard the 3com 589 series are dirt cheap too, hacked driver should work great on a 190 (I forget the url for the driver, search the PB-list archives for 3com and/or 589.) hth, Dan K ................................. http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 ................................. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
