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[filmscanners] RE: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
Well Tony,
Again you may be correct. I heard that SCSI related to parallel protocols,
which was the reason that externalparallel port devices always showed up in
device manager as SCSI devices.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:05 AM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: SCSI support on a Mac Pro
>
> On 11/02/2008 Laurie@advancenet.net wrote:
> > USB2 is just as
> > robust if not more so than Firewire; it was USB 1.1 which was not as
> > robust
> > as Firewire.
>
> Yup, nothing wrong with USB2 (so long as it's not plugged and unplugged
> too many times). I have lots of USB and no FW in use, never had an
> issue.
> But somewhere I read that Firewire<->SCSI adapters were an easier and
> simpler engineering prospect, and potentially less prone to driver
> issues
> than USB2<->SCSI, because FW and SCSI were releated protocols. That's
> not
> to say there are problems with USB2<->SCSI in practice, of course.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>
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