On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 01:13 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > More expensive, > > > > What's more expensive? > > Firewire devices are, at least in Brazil. I hope this changes, though. And > if it does, I will buy Firewire devices instead of USB2 ones. > > > > one often gets a machine with a firewire host > > > adapter that just is not supported, > > > > So it's just dumb luck that a generic firewire card bought at > > CompUSA (a big chain, has stores all over the country) works per- > > fectly in Linux? > > Probably. Maybe things are getting better in that area. That was 3 years ago. The on-board VIA firewire from my Shuttle SK41G works perfectly, too. > > > and there is USB2 which is > > > good enough and nearly always supported. > > > > USB2 is much slower than firewire, and if a slow device is plugged > > So what, if it is fast enough? I do not need a 1GB/s (or 2GB/s, I forget) > channel to connect a single 320Mbit/s device. ???????????? > USB2's >400Mbit/s will do > just fine. And with the ammount of USB2 ports I have in my motherboard, I > certainly ain't going to share a channel. Even the printer gets its own > separate channel for its slow 12Mbit/s transfers ;-) I myself tested an external HDD that had both firewire & USB2 jacks. And then I attached the drive to the IDE chain. Internally, the drive got 55MB/s With firewire, the drive got 30MB/s With USB2, it got 12MB/s. > > into a high-speed hub or daisy chain, the whole thing slows down. > > Which sucks, obviously. But one can always plug the slow devices in another > chain, given the ammount of USB2 ports motherboards have nowadays (which is > what I do). > > > That is dumb-arse design, and people who are smart enough to use > > Linux shouldn't be that stupid. > > I never said Firewire was worse. But it is not stupid to use the best tool > for a given situation, and USB2 *is* better than firewire for a lot of > things if you factor in the price and availability of devices. That may > change in time, of course. The only thing that USB is really good for is really slow stuff like mice, keyboards, drawing pens, etc. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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