Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:48:22 -0400 From: Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <20010627004822.B29612@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <20010626200851.A84729@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:08:51PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106260959030.26804-100000@q.closedsrc.org> <KKEHKNLEIDMDLKDOMLGFGEECCEAA.george@vagner.com> <20010626200851.A84729@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:08:51PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:41:15AM -0700, george wrote: > | Don't bother buy an ORB drive > | > | > | 2.2 gig at 29 bucks a cartridge with usb AND scsi capability. > > Ah, tell me more! How well do they work with laptops and/or FreeBSD? Also, how is the reliability of the Orb drives and media? It seems really tempting, but the drives seemed really fragile when I last looked at one. I really would prefer MOs, or multi-gig CR-R. In a way it is bad that there are so many different media out there, none of which are really large enough for today's hard drives. > This might be what i was looking for, but i wasn't sure if BSD supported > them. Then i saw the disktab, and started wondering. Are they umass? > > How is the performance and availability? I'm interested in how fast a USB drive of any kind is. It would definitely be convienient, but USB isn't a fast bus, not really. Firewire might be a better deal if there is much support. -- shannon@widomaker.com _________________________________________________ ______________________/ armchairrocketscientistgraffitiexenstentialist "And in billows of might swell the Saxons before her,-- Unite, oh unite! Or the billows burst o'er her!" -- Downfall of the Gael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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