On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Garl Grigsby wrote: > Garl Grigsby wrote: > [cut] > While I know it is in poor taste to reply to your own posts, here is > what I have found through further research.
Then I am frequently in poor taste. Who made that silly rule anyway? > USB 2.0 for external harddrives seems to be hit and miss. There are some More generally, USB2.0 is hit-or-miss under Linux. Someday it will work. Not today. It has nothing to do with external harddrives. > I am just now starting to dig into Firewire. I have found that the > Oxford 911 chipset (ide to firewire bridge) appears to be well > supported. Now I simply need to find a external case that uses this > chipset and a Firewire card that has solid Linux support. > > Comments appreciated. > Garl >From what I have heard, firewire is also hit-or-miss. Once you get a working connection, it is great. But that may involve selecting each of the components to work together. Of course, that is no different from USB2.0. I suspect what you are looking for does not exist yet: a connection scheme that actually works. A standard that is actually followed by the manufacturers. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." Wizard of Oz _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
