Yeah but it would be hard to use a cd as raid... seeing how raid wants to write to the disks as it creates the MD device At 06:43 PM 12/1/1999 -0800, you wrote: >On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jakob �stergaard wrote: > > > I can't think of a good reason to use CDs for permanent storage anymore. > > Back in the days where 600Megs was a lot, sure, the hottest thing was a > > CD tower. But today with 27G disks flying around at the same cost as my > > (now fairly old) dual-spin CD drive, it really is cheaper, faster and > > easier to just copy the CD contents to the harddrive. > > > >Using CD-R discs, in CD-ROM drives, to store system binaries and libraries >and tripwire databases is fairly useful if you can't afford to mark an >entire drive as read-only using jumpers. > >+++ath >Derek Vadala, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.cynicism.com/~derek =========================================================== David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===========================================================
