Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:30:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removeable media support Message-ID: <199504050730.AAA07162@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504050720.JAA04921@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 5, 95 09:20:27 am
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> 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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