FireWire questions.

[John Wendel]

> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 02:28, Naoki wrote:

>>Off topic question : 
>>UltraScsi III does 320mb/sec which is all well and nice but scsi being a
>>million years old need pre-allocated ID and termination, max 16 devices
>>etc etc.

>>FireWire on the other hand does 400/800mb/sec and can not only support
>>63 devices but you can daisy chain and it doesn't need termination. On
>>top of that you can daisy chain up to 1023 buses together. 
>>
>>So, why is scsi still alive?

You need to do your homework before posting crap. Ultra 320 scsi is not 
320 mbits/sec - it is 320 MBYTES/sec (2560 mb/sec). Serial attached scsi 
will double this speed to 640 MB. And the 16 device limit is long gone.

Regards,

John