From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 18:33:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00714 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA15289; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:33:40 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mass storage (~1Gb) solutions? In-Reply-To: <199807090058.KAA20524@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message