I'm using a SCSI ORB drive with Mandrake- 2.2GB per disk, <$30 per disk,
cheaper than a 1GB Jazz drive. Iomega is only still alive because of
product name recognition. Everybody with a computer knows what a Zip
drive is.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 11/9/00, 8:58:35 AM, Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Iomega and CD-Recorders support [Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott]:
> On Thursday 09 November 2000 14:21, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote:
> | "Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
> | > "What O/S are you running?"
> | > "Uhm, Linux."
> | > "Oh we don't support Linux. Goodbye."
> | > "No wait. It's got nothing to do with the O/S. It's destroying
> | > disks." "But we don't support Linux."
> | > "Linux, Windows, MacOS, it doesn't matter. The drive is physically
> | > destroying disks. It's got nothing to do with the O/S."
> | > "Sorry, we don't support Linux. Goodbye."
> | >
> | > That is why I will NEVER do business with Iomega again. If things
> | > work, great. If not though, you are SOL. That is unacceptable from
a
> | > vendor.
> |
> | AFAIK Iomega is distributing beta software for Linux to support
> | their devices. Looks at:
> |
> | ftp://ftp.iomega.com/pub/english/*container*.tgz
> |
> | So it's even no longer true that they do not support Linux... ;-)
> It will not help them to recover as company.
> With CD-Recorders at $130 level and probably prices for them dropping
below
> $100 next year, I don't see how Iomega can survive.
> (I told Iomega that they will not survive, when was meeting & discussing
> distributorship with them around 3 years ago. They were very arregant.
> Didn't wanted to listen, just: our conditions are:... Minimal order is
> $100K... and so on. We could not agree on that.
> One year later they came back and asked: please! Answer was _ f_ off !
> May be, it will help you a little bit, Brian.)
> Just want to ask people who using CD-recorders with Linux.
> What models you have? Any problems/glitches?
> Are CD-RW disks/drives fully supported?
> I am thinking either to assemble PC with internal CD-recorder or to buy
> external for my notebook. I don't need CD-recorder which is not working
in
> Linux. :-)
> |
> | Bye.
> | Giuseppe
> --
> Vadim Plessky
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