There's no real problem with the Adaptec PC Card solution *EXCEPT*
for the ability to SCSI boot. Of course, you can FireWire boot the
PB(FW) but you'd need a FireWire capable machine to do so. It's a
simple solution and it works. Plus, you'd get Airport built-in,
100Mhz bus, twin USB channels, etc. Plus, if you were doing
presentations as you stated (snipped), then you would be able to have
nice 14.1" screen presentations plus DVD.
It sounds as if you are SCSI-invested as most of us are but the PC
Card is a nice solution unless you have video capture needs (not FW)
since there's only one PC slot (Okay, I lied, there's more than one
"real" problem with the SCSI PC Card - if you have the need for more
than one PC card. However, with modem/Ethernet built-in, this may be
moot).
Someone on the list alluded to the existence of a PC Card "doubler"
to externally double the slots to 2 Type-II slots. I have a single
Type-II to Type-III adapter for my Type-III PC hard drives. But
there is a 260MB Type-II hard drive out there too. Okay, so there is
a third, real problem with the SCSI PC Card solution - the fact that
you can't put the SCSI card in plus another card, etc., etc. yadda.
yadda.
However, functionally, the PC Card would solve your SCSI needs. I've
daisy-chained a CD-RW (may be moot with the announcement of a
drive-bay CD-RW), an MO drive, and a Zip drive (at the end of the
chain, of course). No problems, except that it look so PC-like, ugly
cables all over the place.
Hope this helps.
>I can't live without SCSI, so the new ones are out of the question..
>Tom
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