From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 22:38:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6819837B405 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A1491470262; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:38:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3B397149.7853D0F4@urx.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:38:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shannon Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? References: <20010626200851.A84729@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010627004822.B29612@widomaker.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Shannon wrote: > > 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. Look at USB-2. The new rate is around 458Mb/s. I haven't seen a USB-2 device but the local Circuit City had cards in stock. Kent > > -- > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message