From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 00:31:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA09555 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:31:17 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09547 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:31:16 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA07162; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:30:04 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504050730.AAA07162@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Removeable media support To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504050720.JAA04921@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 5, 95 09:20:27 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 768 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > > > But, MO technology is MUCH MUCH faster than tape, and looks just like > > another SCSI hard drive. Uhm, be aware that MO technology is a slow writer, since it must pass over each track twice to write, once to erase, once to write... > Besides MO technology, Iomega's recently announced new drives (i think > the call'em ``zipdrives'') come to mind. They provide 100 MB at a > reasonable price for the drive (much less than an 128 MB MO drive), > and with comparable medium costs. I'm very interested in this drive, if anybody has any experience ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'