[geeks] digicam envy

[Kurt Huhn]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> I was trying to be sly and saying that if you take your fire-wire drive
> and pull the drive out, you can use the drive directly (or with a
> SCSI<->aide adapter as appropriate) on an Irix machine.
> 

Ah, okay.  I'm a little slow on the uptake these past few days.  I'm getting
better though...

> That said, one machine, perhaps the Onyx and Origin 300s and 3ks, uses
> a fire-wire CD-ROM (actually a IDE CD-ROM with a fire-wire adapter).  It
> seems that thought that fire-wire native cdroms would take off and that
> it would be a valid, non-compromising way to shave costs.
> 

I seem to recall that, but for some reason it never took off.  It's a shame,
firewire seems a good way to add cheap IDE drives to a system for big storage. 
I have no idea how fast that would be though - and I suppose all Irix lacks is
a set of drivers for hard drives.  Probably not *too* difficult to write,
except if you lack the programming skillz - as I do...

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