MtyC aaa wrote in message ...

what you heard about: Second generation 1394/IDE Bridge
http://www.cwol.com/firewire-drives/...-drive-kit.htm

Nothing specific.

i think that problam is in the first generation of Bridge,

There's more than just one.

not in FireWire or USB2.

Those will still be worse than with a normal
IDE internal connection for the drive.

you write about the protocol of USB2, but is not
seen that cuse drop down speed more then 15%??

Correct. Clearly the much better thruput seen in the
benchmarks Tom did with the WD external drives proves
that USB2 and firewire protocol overheads isnt that bad.

But it is the reason that USB2 does a bit worse than firewire.