Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 23:43:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Removeable media support Message-ID: <199504052143.XAA06500@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504050730.AAA07162@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 5, 95 00:30:04 am
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As Poul-Henning Kamp 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... Wasn't it three times? One to erase, one to write the 1-bits, one to write the 0-bits. Anyway, Sony did further development, and they claim to get it all in one by now. > > 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 ? They are rather new, perhaps they've been published for the first time at the CeBit. The figures floating around in Usenet claim DM 350 for a drive and around DM 30 for a 100 MB medium. The drives are said to be SCSI. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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