Re: External USB hard disks?
/ Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> 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
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