Is there a Firewire to SCSI adapter that suits both scanning and storage?
Are USB adapters any good? What the hell was wrong with SCSI-2 anyway?!
There are adapters, but they won't do just what you want. USB is
good, but slow. USB 2.0 is pretty fast -- as fast as SCSI-1, at
least), but USB 2.0 will require you to run OS X. I don't know if
you're ready to do that. I also don't know if the iBook has USB 2.0
ports (there apparently is a hardware difference, though I haven't
dug deep enough to figure out what it is) and you'd have to buy USB
2.0 peripherals to get the speed boost.
As for what was wrong with SCSI, where shall I start? :-) Can't
hot-swap anything. _You_ are the arbitrator in deciding what ID goes
where (and don't forget that some were reserved and their order was
significant). Nothing else used SCSI, really, so peripherals were
expensive (though that's being turned on its head now that SCSI is
falling out of favor). SCSI needs termination at each end of the
chain, but the method of termination is not always consistent....
When I got my G4, I bought a SCSI card to keep my scanner, second
hard drive, and CD-burner alive -- didn't want to spend several
hundred more (US) dollars updating them. Only the CD-burner is still
here; everything else has been replaced with non-SCSI equivalents
because chaining devices was just too much of a pain in the neck.
Who'da thunk it?
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