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USB audio question

I've been trying for six months to get rid of a crackling/static noise during playback of any sound source (including commercial CD's)with my Tascam US 224 external USB soundcard. The crackle is audible regularly - almost constantly, during playback from any source. (the problem started in the last six months. I've run this setup succesfully for two years.)

USB 2.0 External Drives bad for audio?

I was having a problem chaining my firewire 400 drive through my metric halo and into my mac. I discovered that since firewire 400 is only half-duplex, that was causing the problem (when the computer tried to write the data to the drive, it had to stop the incoming audio..Duh). So I bought a USB drive so that i could have the IO and drive on seperate buses.

Newbie recording question(maudio omnistudio usb,mic conga)

mother of all creatures, I received my m-audio omnistudio usb today. Allot of buttons, inputs/outputs it makes me cross-eyed.
Check it out, I got demo software of Vegas, Reason & Live Delta.
The one that seems pretty user friendly is Vegas, I actually found out how to record using the omnistudio. I hooked it up baby!.

SCSI-USB Adapter?

Hi.

I have some external scsi things (scanners, hard disks, CD drives; I think they are all ultra-scsi, in any case, they are about 4-7 years old, but still work fine). I would like to be able to put them further away from the PC than scsi cables allow.

I am wondering if there is such a thing as a usb-to scsi adapter, that I could hook up in the following way: