From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 15:21:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B11E37B407 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 67488 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jun 2001 22:21:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15161.2767.189737.37895@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:21:03 -0500 To: dochawk@psu.edu, Linh Pham Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: <131699446@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 dochawk@psu.edu types: > > > Yes, i do get irritated with that. But, for my laptop it seems the only > > > practical way to go for backups and archives. It's not too bad. When i > > get > > > a desktop, if i ever do, i will definitely go with tape and cron. > I"m actually going with extra ide drives for backup on my scsi system. > The price of 40G drives is down to about 1.5X the same amount of > tapemedia, and then there's the tape drive. I'll have a 3 IDE RAID 5 > rather than a tape drive. I'll also have the scsi cd/rw . . . I tried that for a while. Then I needed the IRQs back :-(. Linh Pham types: > Now I have gotten rid of all of my Parallel equipment and moved to SCSI > (for drives and scanners) and USB for other stuff. Why not USB for the scanner? While the Iomega SCSI may suck, my Artec SCSI scanner creates far more problems. I solved them by putting the scanner, the IOMega and the CDRW on their own bus, but that seems excessive. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message