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More info?)
On 17 Apr 2005 01:39:14 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>Previously joed@guess.where wrote:
>> I bought a Maxtor 300Gig external drive. I have a choice of hooking it
>> up via Firewire or USB.
>
>> What is the difference?
>
>> I'm using a 3gig Pent 4 Dell machine.
>
>In my erperience FireWire is more reliable, but that may be specific
>to the equipment I tried (different from yours on both sides).
>
>In principle you should be able to switch to the other option without
>data loss (both use the SCSI disk command set on the higher layers
>of their protocol stack) if you have problems with one option.
>Maybe you should try that as long as you do not have much data on
>it.
>
>Arno
I've had enough problems with my recent old comp. That's why I got
this new one. I'll stick with USB.
Protocol stack? Is that a monthly or bi-monthly publication? : )
Thanks for answering.