On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 00:33 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > but people still think usb hd is what they want .... geez... > ( it's their $$$ for time and hw )
That's why I voted with my $$$ for a firewire enclosure
That's what I did also: motivated by the good performance of my iPod when connected the Firewire port of my iBook both under MacOS X and under Linux and looking to be as prepared as possible in the event of crash recovery, I bought myself a Firewire enclosure for an IDE drive and a vanilla Firewire card for my Desktop.
I have been quite happy with this strategy ever since. And the nice point is that current Linux kernels are able to use HFS+ quite well, which is a good compromise between a filesystem that can be used with Linux and with other OSes (it allows symlinks, which VFAT doesn't and it can be journaled, which VFAT also doesn't allow).
-- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
