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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (5672)	1/10/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 10072

>"Removable-storage vendor Iomega won't add a Firewire interface to its Jaz drives, but will instead soon offer a SCSI-to-Firewire cable to bridge the existing product"<<< Actually, I'm glad somebody's making a Firewire to SCSI bridge. I'm very tempted to get one of those new G3's with firewire and a bridge would enable me to use my Jaz, Zip, external hard drive and scanner with SCSI (I would hope) without adding an SCSI card. In fact, Iomega might be able to sell quite a few bridges if they can support full SCSI protocol. A bridge should be able to operate as fast as 50 MBps (bytes per sec) since the firewire goes to 400 Mbps (bits per sec). 800MBps firewire chips are being demonstrated now and speeds up to 2.5Gbps (300MBps) are expected in the future. Those speeds will probably kill SCSI and other external parallel buses. Eventually, most peripherals should be available in USB or firewire. I think the entire PC world will switch also, after the devices are popularized on the new Macs. Jeff