[nuckin futs]

Fire wire is supposedly good for DV cameras and firewire drives. Is there anything else it can do? is there a firewire to SCSI converter or a firewire webcam? i would like to make use of the firewire port that i have.

[rlmorel]

Hi nuckin futs,
There are scanners, cdburners, dvd burners, jukeboxes, tape backup units. There are a lot of things out there. I have the UMAX firewire scanner, and it blows my old scsi UMAX away!
Bob

[giantmike]

and yes, there are Firewire/SCSI converters and Firwire webcams.

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[jeromep]

For all practical purposes, Firewire has matured to the point that if it was made for SCSI then it is now available for Firewire, but it has so much more potential than SCSI did, and it also has a lot more flexiblity than SCSI did.

Some companies you might want to check into that do Firewire peripherals would be VST Technologies, Club-Mac, APS Technologies, Orange Micro and the list goes on.

Firewire is the best thing to hit the Mac since they devoted themselves to SCSI so many years ago.

[Indigo Boy]

Also, I'm told that you can link two Firewire computers together so that the second Mac acts as a second harddrive. Great for exchanging files, etc. Haven't tried it myself, but it sounds as if it could come in handy!