On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: .. >Yea, IEEE1394 hardware is still quite pricy. Its not being marketed as >well as USB, and AFAIK, only Macs, and some laptops come standard with a >firewire port.
When was the last time you looked at FireWire pricing? I bought an Adaptec FireConnect 4300 PCI card at CompUSA about a month ago for about $50US, an external ADS chassis for $99.95, and a Maxtor 120GB IDE drive for it for another $99.95. I bought an external 120GB LaCie drive about six months ago at an Apple store for $350.00US. This didn't work at all on Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation even after I built a 2.4.20 kernel for it. I've used it successfully with Mandrake 8.2 and Mandrake 9.0 (the install tried to install the OS on it since it scanned it before it found the SCSI hard drive so I had to turn off the external drive during the installation). I'm in the process of copying then entire Mandrake 9.0 system over to the external drive now before I start hacking on it. BTW: When I was in CompUSA last week, they had external drive chassis that support both USB 2.0 and ieee1394 (not at the same time). This looks to be very useful for backing up a variety of systems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.'' - Sir Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
