[geeks] digicam envy

[Eric Dittman]

> > 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).
> 
> Yeah - but FireWire is SO COOL and it "just works".
> 
> Lets see you move a SCSI CD-RW between two machines (to one, and back
> again) and be able to *use* it on those machines, without having to 
> reboot either box.. 8-)

This is no problem with OpenVMS.  I'm pretty sure Tru64 can
do it, too.  I'm sure about VMS, though, as I do it all the
time (not just CDROM or CDRW, but disks and tapes, too).
-- 
Eric Dittman
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