/ Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Do you have a preferred firewire card?
When I asked a similar question, Michael D. Crawford helpfully replied: > I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, > but this page may help you: > > http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php > > Note that very likely what you want is a CardBus card, rather than a > PCMCIA card. Strictly speaking, PCMCIA is the ISA bus in a small form > factor to fit in a laptop slot. CardBus cards look the same, but they > are PCI bus cards and so have both much higher performance and less > impact on the host computer. > > The main reason to choose PCMCIA over cardbus is when the host OS > doesn't support it yet; for example, the BeOS never shipped with > CardBus support, but Linux does support it. Having skimmed that list, I've mostly settled on the this one from FirewireDirect (but I don't actually have it yet, so I'm engaged in a bit of speculation): http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/cardbus.shtml It's reasonably priced, the list above says it "works great" and I'm encouraged by the fact that they list "Linux" as a supported OS. Supposing I pony up the cash and buy myself the 160Gb external Firewire drive and get it all working, what's the collective opinion on filesystems for it? One great big EXT2 partition? A few somewhat smaller ones? One of the journaling filesystems? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Irrationally held truths may be more http://nwalsh.com/ | harmful than reasoned errors.--T. H. | Huxley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
