Samy Elashmawy
why not use a regular ide hard drive along with one of those removable hard drive holder things that you put the drive in and can slide it in / out as needed and even shutle between machines.
1. ~2.2g hard disks are impossible to come by from reliable sources in some (like my) area. 2. The ~2.2g hard disks I *have* seen are significantly more than $40 @. 3. I've used IDE trays before, and they break often. 4. You need multiple host trays, one for each machine you intend to using it on. See 3. 5. Some people (like me) are already out of IDE chains (disk, zip, CD, CD-R) and out of PCI slots, which makes adding more IDE controllers *very* difficult. (I have a SCSI controller) 6. Using a tray like you mentioned may or may not affect UDMA transfer rates, which would keep you at significantly less than 12mb/sec (necessary for video capture). If the Orb IDE were supported, I'd gladly boot one of my other disks to make room for it. Heck, I might even pop the $280 or so for the USB version (since I don't have any other USB devices, bus saturation is not an issue for me). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Makes a lot of sence. YOu may try ordering an ide/scussi version from one of the outfits that has a rock solid 30 monuy back garentee. Stick it in , doesent work send it back. Compusa now has a restocking fee on any opened hardware , unless its defective , then they replace it with the same model ect... At 05:26 PM 3/28/2000 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
Samy Elashmawy
said: why not use a regular ide hard drive along with one of those removable hard drive holder things that you put the drive in and can slide it in / out as needed and even shutle between machines.
1. ~2.2g hard disks are impossible to come by from reliable sources in some (like my) area. 2. The ~2.2g hard disks I *have* seen are significantly more than $40 @. 3. I've used IDE trays before, and they break often. 4. You need multiple host trays, one for each machine you intend to using it on. See 3. 5. Some people (like me) are already out of IDE chains (disk, zip, CD, CD-R) and out of PCI slots, which makes adding more IDE controllers *very* difficult. (I have a SCSI controller) 6. Using a tray like you mentioned may or may not affect UDMA transfer rates, which would keep you at significantly less than 12mb/sec (necessary for video capture).
If the Orb IDE were supported, I'd gladly boot one of my other disks to make room for it. Heck, I might even pop the $280 or so for the USB version (since I don't have any other USB devices, bus saturation is not an issue for me).
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