Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 18:59:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Eddy Deegan <eddyd@dreamworld.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Chat mailing list <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hardware Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971105185807.218D-100000@dreamworld.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19971105092746.CJ29364@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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I've got some driver code for the Iomega ZIP via the parallel port. Has anyone else got this or got it to work? I'm going to try it out this weekend... ZIP drives are really excellent for quick backups. Eddy Deegan. On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > For a backup solution, if reliability counts more to you than > cheapness, save your money, and by a Real Tape Drive some day. > Jonathan Bresler reported to be very happy with his Archive Anaconda > 2750, this seems to be one of the cheapest drives that offers the > quality i would consider minimum standard for a backup solution. (See > the handbook section on tape drives.) > > For faster and cheaper backups, use /dev/null. :-)) You can't beat it > pricewise, but anything else below a Real Tape Drive i've seen so far > (floppy tapes etc.) seems to compete with /dev/null on the reliability > of the stored data. > > </personal opinion> > > -- > cheers, J"org >
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