On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 02:45 AM, George Slusher wrote: > One can also get USB HDs and USB CD-RW drives, though these would work > more slowly on USB 1.1 than with FireWire 400. More slowly is a bit of an understatement. A USB 1.x hard drive took 5 minutes to do a backup that took 10 seconds to an internal drive. --- You are held responsible for the credit given to a thief using your name but you don't go to jail if that person kills someone while driving using a copy of your driver's license. Why the difference? <http://www.JackRodgers.com> <http://www.lobatelacscale.com> JackRodgers at earthlink.net