From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 8:54:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp1.mastery.ca (comp1.mastery.ca [209.202.88.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EA037B405 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail@max-info.net) Received: from 78kw954 ([209.202.88.150]) (authenticated) by comp1.mastery.ca (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5QFqxQ00505; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:52:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mail@max-info.net) Message-ID: <006101c0fe58$1345e9e0$3200000a@Intranet> From: "Ryan Masse" To: "j mckitrick" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <001701c0fe22$164f1ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010626164816.B79141@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:52:59 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 why not get an external CD-RW? > | 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message