From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 8:48:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D75F37B406 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15Ev4a-000BX2-00; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:48:16 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5QFmGE80325; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:48:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:48:16 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Linh Pham Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Jason Stewart , anderson@centtech.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <20010626164816.B79141@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <001701c0fe22$164f1ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:27:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | Iomega's implementation of anything is rather crappy... how does one | explain that reading or writing to a Parallel Zip [100] drive on my | dually P2-400 (with the parallel port set to either ECP or EPP) soaks up | 80+ percent of my CPU. Yes, i do get irritated with that. But, for my laptop it seems the only practical way to go for backups and archives. It's not too bad. When i get a desktop, if i ever do, i will definitely go with tape and cron. Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message