18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
12:15 p.m.
Yeah, basically that's what firewire is all about. Serial SCSI pretty
much. With a much cheaper connector too. :-) And no more SCSI ID's or
terminators to fumble with.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Unless you were the mfr. and wanted a way cheaper
interface connector maybe?
Makes me wonder how well SCSI would have fared
had it been hot-pluggable
from the start, as that seems to be the main benefit of USB (even if the
Microsoft guys can't seem to get the software side of it right!)
I've noticed that, where software that seems to want to deal with SCSI stuff
(in my case a flatbed scanner hooked to one machine and a burner hooked to
another) seems to want those devices hooked up and powered when they boot,
though I can do things like `cdrecord -scanbus` and get the software to
notice what's out there.