PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

2002-04-22 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: | You'd better go for firewire then. I have the maxtor firewire 80 GB. | It works like a charm in both linux and windows... it's faster than USB1 | (and 2)... and it work with a

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

2002-04-22 Thread Mike Frisch
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:25:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: Well, my laptop doesn't have a firewire port, but I suppose this would be a good excuse to buy a firewire PCMCIA card. Anyone have experience using a firewire PCMCIA card and an external hard disk? I do not have anything to offer

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

2002-04-22 Thread Tony Green
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:36, Mike Frisch wrote: I do not have anything to offer here, but am interested in hearing the results. The external Firewire hard disk is a no brainer (AFAIK), but the PCMCIA Firewire card may not be. I've got a couple of dual usb/fw external housings (one 5 1/4 and

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

2002-04-22 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, but this page may help you: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php Note that very likely what you want is a CardBus card, rather than a PCMCIA card. Strictly speaking, PCMCIA is the ISA bus in a small form factor to fit in

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

2002-04-22 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:48:48AM +1000, Tony Green wrote: I've got a couple of dual usb/fw external housings (one 5 1/4 and one 3 1/2). CD-RW and a 60GB drive in them and they work fantastic on both USB and Firewire. Which enclosures are you using? I notice the maximum throughput of some