[geeks] digicam envy

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:46:26AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:02:54AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > It was on a mac that I was using it.  And it's not just me.  Apple
> > officially recommends not using firewire harddrives when capturing
> > firewire video.
> 
> Interesting.  Its worked JUST FINE for me...
> 
> (G4 Cube, Seagate 60G IDE HD in a IDE<->Firewire enclosure, and a 
>  JVC SR-VS20U Firewire VCR..)

In looking for info to back me up, I found that apparently it was a
driver bug rather than a firewire short coming.  I'll drop it now.
Though I still think SCSI is better (U2W is over 1.5x the speed of
firewire, U160 is over 3x the speed of firewire).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd