From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 22:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C0137B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from [209.96.179.84] (helo=escape.shannon.net) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15F7ff-000829-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:15:24 -0400 Received: (from shannon@localhost) by escape.shannon.net (8.11.0/8.8.8) id f5R4mMa29653 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:48:22 -0400 From: Shannon To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <20010627004822.B29612@widomaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20010626200851.A84729@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 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 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