From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 10:12: 3 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 30AD337B406 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:12:00 -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 15EwNb-000KmI-00; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:11:59 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5QHBwK82292; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:11:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:11:58 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Linh Pham Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <20010626181158.E81113@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010626175829.D81113@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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 09:51:47AM -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 | Zip 250 might be the way to go then... If you really need portability, | then the USB Powered Zip 250 model will work (since you won't need to | lug around a wall wart). If you want speed, SCSI is the best model, but | you need adapters for that to work on a laptop. Guess i should stop being greedy, and be happy with my parallel zip 250. :-) I thought about buying the USB 250, but that would only make sense if it were significantly faster. 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