Thanks for all the advice. After my "sandbox" system died, I want to proceed with a little more caution than normal.
At 07:41 PM 6/2/2003 -0700, you wrote:
UDMA-6 isn't going to make a lick of difference over 5 if you're running a single drive. The 8Mb cache on that drive will be a nice boost though. Most PCI controller cards are at least recognized as just that, a controller card :)
Dual booting on my 80GB isn't an issue with about 20GB for XP and the other 60GB for Gentoo. Using 'lilo' for my bootloader. Nary a problem except the latest one with the TV card issue :P
This type of dual boot is the kind of configuration I have in mind.
As for Firewire & USB2.0.... when working with larger files (ISO's, video, etc...) Firewire will have greater throughput. Small data files (music, documents, etc...) will perform better with USB2.0
From my experience, Firewire always works, even in Windows.
USB 2.0 is not supported by Apple, but some 3rd party add-on cards claim to support Mac OS X. But, the choice of Firewire over USB is a no-brainer on Mac.
If I am "lucky", USB 2.0 will work better in Win XP Pro than on earlier Windows versions ( on Win 2k Pro, I got booted on the the Blue Screen after installing the USB 2.0 drivers).
Maybe, SuSe 8.2 Pro will provide better support for USB 2.0 than any WIndows implementation.
Rodney
As for booting from the external drive, that's highly dependant upon your BIOS as well.
Probably works for the Mac system ROM with the built-in Firewire.
Mr O.
--- Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently bought a 160 GB HD, and it uses the latest standard > UDMA-6, ATA-133. > > It includes a PCI add on card, which supports the new standard > for a family > of OSes (not Linux). > > I tried a Google search and only found a few instances where > folks > encounterred problems, either not able to utilize the full > capacity of the > drive beyond 137 GB or worse. > > One possibility I am considering is to put the 160 GB HD in an > external > enclosure with an Oxford 911 chipset that provides a bridge > for IDE to > Firewire and IDE to USB 2.0 > > I won't be able to boot from the HD ( unless I use it on my > Mac, which has > built-in Firewire support and may even be bootable from a > Firewire attached > HD); but I can use the HD with plug and play on Mac OS X and > Win 2k/XP Pro > via the Firewire interface. > > I have seen that the latest SuSe 8.2 supports USB 2.0, so I > should be able > to use the enclosure's USB 2.0 interface to get decent > access(high > performance?) to the large HD ( faster than Firewire? in the > specification > it says USB 2.0 480 mbps vs. 400 mbps, but not in the real > world from my > own first hand experience). > > Rodney
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