From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 9: 8:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77D537B406 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15EvOY-000Hqb-00; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:08:54 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5QG8qe80817; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:08:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:08:52 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Linh Pham Cc: Ryan Masse , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <20010626170852.F79141@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <006101c0fe58$1345e9e0$3200000a@Intranet> 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 08:44:08AM -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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message