Yep, they work great. But as he said he is out of IDE ports. My suggestion would be either to install a scsi card and buy a scsi onstream drive, or get a USB external hard drive. Then he could back up all of the windows and linux 'puters to it. Linux 2.4 works GREAT with USB storage stuff (including those little memory cards for cameras).
Shannon On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 09:43, Dustin Puryear wrote: > How much is this thing? Just so everyone knows, I bought an OnStream 30GB > for like $240 or something. Works great, and is very quiet. > > Regards, Dustin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Chopin Cusachs > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:21 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > > > > I've had better experiences with the little Ditto tape drive, > > though it can't > > go beyond 1 GB compressed. Parallel port is slow, but I don't mind a > > three hour backup if it goes while I am in bed sleeping. I can > > also use it > > for the other computers around here, especially if I can make it go under > > Linux. Also have a parallel port 100 Mb ZIP drive, as well as internal > > ones in two boxes here. I like the Norton-Iomega recovery system. > > > > One major problem with Windows systems is that a really useful backup > > must be able to run under DOS to restore a system when Windows can't > > boot. > > > > Hadn't thought of getting two, but may do that. > > > > Maybe sometime when we are short a program we could get someone to > > talk about rescue packages that boot from floppy, set up a RAM disk, > > and run tools from that. SPBLinux comes to mind as a good example, > > but the diskette produced by Windows98SE does so also. That's it, > > OS on diskette for troubleshooting and recovery -- for title. > > > > Choppy > > > > At 07:31 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > > >Buy a cheap tape drive and that's what you'll get. Several years ago I > > >bought a Ditto 2Gig tape backup and that's was the biggest piece of junk > > >there ever was. I had to RMA it and get another and it was junk > > too. After > > >looking at mailing lists for that product I found out that a lot of other > > >people thought the same thing. I know I'll never buy another > > Ditto product > > >again. Guaranteed. Just my $0.02. Jeff > > > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
