Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:33:40 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mass storage (~1Gb) solutions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708212126.15246B-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199807090058.KAA20524@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I had a think about CD-R's but they are too unreliable (from a
> friend of mines experience), ie if you interrupt a write even a
> but you can throw away the CD
With a single 2940UW and everything SCSI, I can burn a CD in an
xterm window on the fly, ie. not from an image file, while doing
a level 0 dump of all three of my hard drives. Even with
/etc/daily kicking in in the middle of the burn.
Don't let the horrors of the M$ weenies scare you away. With a
real OS it just works. :)
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