From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 10:16: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3916137B407 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 775A755407; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6598251610; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:01:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: j mckitrick Cc: , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: <20010626181158.E81113@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 2001-06-26, j mckitrick scribbled: # Guess i should stop being greedy, and be happy with my parallel zip 250. # :-) I would stick with it... it's fast for that kind of a drive and is still rather portable. # I thought about buying the USB 250, but that would only make sense if it # were significantly faster. It depends, but the speed difference isn't 3-5x faster (again, it depends on the configuration of the parallel port, the cable quality, and for the USB drive, how many other USB devices contending for the 1.5MBps shared bandwidth). I just like not having to lug around a wall wart and have it work immediately in FreeBSD (and in Windows, and Mac OS). -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message