no prob about the name.. and I will confess I probably haven't read the docs you have.... I just know by all the products I have seen. I didn't want to start anything either, but figured I should start out like I did just to get attn of anyone that might need it.. When the new macs came out they only had firewire and usb. USB replaced ADB for simple things and firewire replaced scsi. and since mac folks used scsi for tons of stuff including lots of data storage, they are using firewire for this these days.. and if it had issues like you describe, there would have been very big problems that would have been publicized a few years ago.. however, I will make these thoughts that support your argument: 1)I swear I hooked up a sony camera to a desktop and transferred video using some video editing software.. this dropped some frames.. but it seems like the software was decoding and then capturing the images as they came instead of transferring a data file... 2)the hard drives in most firewire enclosures are fast IDE drives with converters.. some don't have the IDE circuitry but were based on IDE drives... so they aren't pushing 400mbps... there is probably a way to dump 400mbps over firewire that is lossy, for things like audio and video, like you describe, but you would have to enable this functionality I would assume... thats all I can figure... I just want an SBC that has USB 2.0 and can boot from it, esp linux... then the drive can be external and further away then IDE cables allow.. why not firewire? I guess just more devices like wireless lan available for usb than firewire and only so much port space on the devices.... as opposed to data loss problems.... Bryan Hurley On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Carol Stein wrote: > Hi, Brian -- > > So does this mean that the protocol for the "Firewire" interface now *does* > include error checking? I must have missed that update in my scanning of > techie materials. No argument intended (unlike in my political posts in > other forums!); just trying to get accurate information. > > Cheers -- > Carol -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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