-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:03:47PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >> From my experience, Firewire always works, even in Windows. > > > >It only mostly works in Linux. > > So, this is one of the very few arenas where Win is better
It's one of the areas where Windows has been more thuroughly tested. Firewire on non-macs has a relatively small target audience. Of that audience, the only large group of Linux geeks using it right now are either importing DV to turn into DivX AVI or are iPod users. ;) > > Too few firewire users out there, so the > >drivers tend to not get as much testing as USB, IDE, SCSI, etc. > > I am sad to hear that Firewire is given such low priority vs. USB, et. al. More people using it == better testing. Face it, there just aren't many cheap firewire devices out there right now. The average Linux geek is either cheap, poor, or both (ie, a student..) There are a lot of really cheap USB devices out there today, so the USB code gets a pretty thurough testing since every PC since 1996 has had working USB support and you can pick up a $30 device that uses it and probably has Linux support. Firewire is still an option on most systems. The drives available for firewire tend to be hard drives (internal's cheaper), video devices (Linux still lacks decent video editing), and uhh, the iPod? Hardly worth it to most people. In this way it's like Bluetooth - very cool tech, but nobody's actually got the hardware to use it. > >Modern macs feature USB2. You need to get a quietly distributed thing > >from Apple to enable the EHCI functionality. It just happens that they > >work fine as USB1.1 since part of the EHCI spec is OHCI compatibility. > > With my limited experience using USB 2.0 ( mostly frustration), I do not > expect it to compete with Firewire for high performance. The most favorable > experience I heard was from someone who works for Xerox, says that the USB > 2.0 print driver works, is faster than 1.1 I have a USB2 scanner. When I get my Firewire/USB2 drive in a couple of days (it will arrive in a couple of days, though it may not get installed until after next Tuesday), I'll move my scanner to it. It'll run faster, and I'll find myself wishing my Zip 250 was also USB2. I wonder if some enterprising person out there is likely to sell a cheap replacement for some part of the Zip 250's electronics that will make it run USB2. The 250 is better than the 750 since it can write to the old standby 100 disks and is USB-powered. The 750 is only self-powered in the Firewire version, and then only if you've got a real Firewire port rather than an iLink. Hint: if your firewire connector is smaller than USB, it's iLink. - -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only l33t on Thursdays <Dr^Nick> SGI_Multitexture is bad voodoo now <Dr^Nick> ARB is good voodoo <witten> no, voodoo rush is bad voodoo :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/20F62261F1857A3E79FC44F98FF7D7A3DCF9DAB3 iEYEARECAAYFAj7cIsgACgkQj/fXo9z52rP32ACcD4h5nGakc1R3yon5Hdf6Nezr YMgAninIxH+nPxPExFwCycZkwkjvkKaT =OJFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
