Just to hop into the SCSI/ATA debate. I bought an OWC firewire with the
Oxford, superlite 40 gig with the 8 meg cache. While there are decent read
and write speeds on this attached to the
Super Mac, mid twenties, on my Wall Street through the Newer Card, I get
only ten and eleven using the Mercury Elite and no better with the new On
the Go IBM with the Oxford in the Firewire Case. My ATlas with a Ratoc card
on the Wall Street averages 23 and 24 read and write speeds. When you get
to the Supermac the differences are really dramatic between SCSI and the
ATA no matter what the sites claim. I am still fielding a world of system
bombs, error messages and crashes with the ATA 66 card that I put into my
wife's 8500, extension crash after crash, which has now crept even onto the
SCSI drive. (I put new ram in as well, but have tested up to five hundred
and will test to a thousand.) Nothing like this occurred when I put the
external SCSI Atlas on my Supermac with the Miles LVD card in the top slot
of the U-Max.
By the way, I have just sent the OWC drive back for repair or
exchange because the external power supply that my Wallstreet needs when
connected has the drive beeping and scratching though the drive works
flawlessly on the bus of the Supermac and it is a marvel of simplicity.
Does anyone on the list have any experience with the Wallstreet and these
lightweight firewire drives and their power supplies? I know it's off topic
but I am hoping someone will hop in with experience.
Mark
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