Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 17:01:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@news.iadfw.net> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net Subject: Re: Zip Drives Message-ID: <199506022201.RAA17039@news.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <199505242123.OAA09775@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 24, 95 02:23:15 pm
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In reply: > > > drives with the $20 100M cartridges. I've been wondering how reliable they > > > are, if they could be used for fairly easy backup of a FreeBSD system, and > > > if anyone has had any problems interfacing them to FreeBSD (it's a SCSI > > > peripheral, so I would tend to think it would look like any other > > > removable drive). Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > I made a deal with Justin Gibbs: I lend him a zip drive, he works on > > the driver I use (2842A) and tried to get it working. I ordered one > > from MicroWarehouse, they said they'd ship in days, then weeks, now they're > > not sure. I guess this is waiting on MicroWarehouse, unless someone knows > > a SURE better supplier. Thank Justin for the offer, I guess. > > > > BTW, it's supposed to go direct to Justin, I won't see it until > > afterwards, but a Mac'ified friend of mine gave me a demo, and what a drive! > > Imagine a FAST 100 meg floppy! Access times quoted at 29 msec. > > I just called on these, they are avaliable to mass market (ie, OEM's) only > at this time. You are going to be waiting a while for it. > > > > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD Are fujitsu-style 3.5" m-o drives compat with the aha0 driver? Last I remember, they were like 28ms, 128M, and in that price range... I think that Hard Drives International used to sell them [Insight?]... To hell with Bernouilli... Smaller carts and longer retention with m-o... Anyhow, they should be way cheaper by now [I think a few years ago it was $999US, and included 5 disks]... with the retention times involved, i personally think that high capacity, cheap, m-o storage can easily replace tape.. not to mention transfer rates and usable scratch-disk capability... it would also make an ideal bootable distribution media, kinda nice in cases where a cd would be impractical.. Jim
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