well i'd also like to be able to use the drive with my iMac...
it is a REALLY old Castlewood ORB drive that will only work in classic...
it has scsi native, but came with a USB adapter...not a bad deal at time time...
but of course... it doesnt work in X and now that i only have classic installed on my TiBook and i'd really like to be able to use it with my old iMac as well... :-\\ oh well i just wanted to be able to get some more speed out of the thing...
I wonder why FW--> scsi never took of...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Firewire 1 = 50MB/s
Firewire 2 = 100MB/s
U2W SCSI = 80MB/s -- fairly ubiquitous, fairly old
LVD SCSI160 = 160MB/s -- a current standard
LVD SCSI320 = 320MB/s -- enough to saturate a PCI bus. PCI-X is needed in order for this to work well.
As you can see, SCSI can really outgun Firewire. Why? It's a matter regarding 68 to 80 wires of parallel mayhem vs 4 paltry wires. Granted it's not as flexible as Firewire, but for big RAIDs, speed and reliability are the objectives, not flexibility. SCSI is not a consumer technology anymore. Firewire is. IDE is.
I use Microtech SCSI to FW adapter. A year before, I had purchased Microtech SCSI to USB adapter and it was horrible. Most of the time, it crashed the computer. What a waste of money.
The SCSI to FW is stable and did not require any drivers. I use it for my SCSI CD burner and Seagate Barracuda Ultra2 LVD drive to my CUBE in OS 10.2.2 and OS 9.2.2 as well as my Pismo PB w/ OS 9.2.2
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it is a REALLY old Castlewood ORB drive that will only work in classic...
it has scsi native, but came with a USB adapter...not a bad deal at time time...
but of course... it doesnt work in X and now that i only have classic installed on my TiBook and i'd really like to be able to use it with my old iMac as well... :-\\ oh well i just wanted to be able to get some more speed out of the thing...
I wonder why FW--> scsi never took of...
<a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=1 967&pcount=&Product_Id=100393&Section.Section_Path =%2F%2FRoot%2FFireWire%2E%2E%2EndCables%2FMacProdu cts%2FHubsandAdapters%2Fct_Id>" target="_blank">Firewire to SCSI adapter</a>
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I wonder why FW--> scsi never took of...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Firewire 1 = 50MB/s
Firewire 2 = 100MB/s
U2W SCSI = 80MB/s -- fairly ubiquitous, fairly old
LVD SCSI160 = 160MB/s -- a current standard
LVD SCSI320 = 320MB/s -- enough to saturate a PCI bus. PCI-X is needed in order for this to work well.
As you can see, SCSI can really outgun Firewire. Why? It's a matter regarding 68 to 80 wires of parallel mayhem vs 4 paltry wires. Granted it's not as flexible as Firewire, but for big RAIDs, speed and reliability are the objectives, not flexibility. SCSI is not a consumer technology anymore. Firewire is. IDE is.
The SCSI to FW is stable and did not require any drivers. I use it for my SCSI CD burner and Seagate Barracuda Ultra2 LVD drive to my CUBE in OS 10.2.2 and OS 9.2.2 as well as my Pismo PB w/ OS 9.2.2