[P1] Questions Purchase ibook 800mhz ??

[Richard J Laue]

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>Belkin make a USB to SCSI for the mac so why would it not work?




USB-to-SCSI adapters DO work, but frankly, they are a pain.  I used 
one for a short while, when I migrated from my PB3400 to a 600mhz 
dual USB iBook.  I quickly gave up on THAT plan!

Performance using the adaptor was slow, and it seemed like I was 
always plugging and unplugging the adaptor, and having to restart 
each time I added a scsi device.

vjamacaddict, in the list of peripherals you gave, the only scsi 
devices I saw were a CDRW drive, and "several scsi harddrives."

I think you should consider getting an iBook with the built-in CDRW 
drive (which, by the way, will allow you to play DVD movies on your 
iBook -- lots of fun!) and forget about trying to use the old scsi 
CDRW.  The specs on the iBook CDRW are same as on your old SCSI one, 
so you're not losing anything performance-wise.  The built-in is SO 
convenient -- nothing extra to carry or plug in, and it's always 
right there.

And as far as the hard drives -- I'd replace them with a firewire 
drive.  Firewire drives are cheap these days.  Your performance using 
a scsi-usb adaptor is going to be SLOW and unreliable, so you will 
NOT want to use those drives for backup or for critical data.

BTW - here's what I mean by "slow," in real-world terms:
I have about 30gb of data on my iBook HD.  I can copy the whole thing 
to an external firewire drive in LESS time than it took me to copy 
roughly 3gb of data off my scsi drive using the USB adapter!  I have 
long since given away both the scsi drive and the adapter.

Cheers -
RJLaue