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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:08:52 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
Cc:        Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel?
Message-ID:  <20010626170852.F79141@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106260842330.26804-100000@q.closedsrc.org>; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:44:08AM -0700
References:  <006101c0fe58$1345e9e0$3200000a@Intranet> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106260842330.26804-100000@q.closedsrc.org>

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:44:08AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote:
| On 2001-06-26, Ryan Masse scribbled:
| 
| # why not get an external CD-RW?
| 
| Or an external USB tape drive? Depending on how much data you are
| planning to backup, an external tape drive or a CD-RW would be faster
| and probably more reliable than Zip 250 drives (remember... click of
| death :)

Yes, i've been wondering when it would strike.  To make a long story short,
i got the zip drive when i had windows on my laptop.  Then i made the
switch.  Rather than scrap good hardware, i kept it, and i could also use it
to move data from dos/windows machines to *nix easily.  I also like random
access storage.

Has anyone used USB tape drives under BSD with success ?


Jonathon
--
Microsoft complaining about the source license used by 
Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black.

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