RE: [OT] (A little) : Firewire cables...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> doesn't sound so terrible ... staying with the 'Mac, I mean !

Ideally it would be nice to get hold of something a bit meatier then a Mac
Mini ... the one I have at the moment is borrowed from a friend (but does
such a damn good job that I've been hanging on to it) but it would be nice
to have gigabit networking, native 1394b (firewire800) support and more
than
one firewire port.

Thing is, the intel Mac Minis might have gigabit LAN but they're still a
single Firewire400 port on them.

A PowerMac would be lovely but is rather OTT for what I need and would put
up the power consumption by quite a hefty amount (however it could be
filled
with firewire800 cards so it would be pretty damn quick at shuffling data
around) - oh - and they still pull in quite high values on ebay too!

>  >Delayed Write Failure ...
>
> BTW, Apple took a long long while getting their DVD player working
> properly ... sound synch' problems, mostly ... 'though there was a
> work-around ... we first got it with OS8.6, but 'twasn't until OSX.4
> (IIRC) that the player really got to be OK ... the issues seemed
> simple, but the problems were deep & across several elements of
the
> system ... sometimes it happens, I guess ... especially when real-
> time / synchronisation factors are involved ... even to MS !

I know what you're saying Chris but a non destructive issue with a media
playback application isn't quite the same as a bug which slowly destroys
your data leaving you with large amounts of corrupted garbage across
possibly terabytes of storage. :-(

Phil