On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > FYI, there are some drive bays which DO NOT have space for someother 3.5"
> > device, and i'd rather have an LS-120 sitting there rather than a floppy.
>
> Well, there are 5.25->3.5 brackets, and external CD-R drives, and external
> 8mm SCSI tape drives, and cetera... maybe if LS-120 was able to act like a
> real floppy, I didn't even mention, it probably doesn't support 21 sectors
> or 82 tracks, you are going to still have to do some manual adjustment for
> tomsrtbt to go on it.
Of course, i can live with a bootable CD ROM drive with TOM's rtbt in the boot
sector. But the point was the backup media, really, and getting rid of the
floppy drive...
>
> > A CD-RW is useless for instantaneous backups because it is too slow, and
> > doesn't serve the purpose for snapshot incremental backups. Don't let them
> > die, they serve a purpose...
>
> Huh? My 8x CD-R makes 650 meg discs in 10 minutes, that is less than 2
> minutes for the equivalent of an LS120, that is too slow? Actually, I use
One doesn't use CD-Rs for increamental backups. Write-once media does not cut
it if you have a small amount of data you need to keep a backup of. I can do
it of course, but i'd rather waste my money on something else \8)
CD-RWs are too slow, especially if you need to blank a disc first before
re-using it.
> an Exabyte for backups, that puts 10gig on a $3 tape. SCSI and external
> is better, certainly Jaz/Zip/Etc at least come in SCSI versions, which of
> course tomsrtbt supports.
Tape drives IMHO is brain damaged technology. They are more unreliable than
the media it is supposed to back up. They fail on you just when you are about
to restore a backup from it. The only way for one to be sure that the data
you've written to tape is ok, is for you to read it again, which is time
consuming and cuts the life of your tape head in half. I'd rather stick with
JAZ or ZIP drives, at least they 'click' when they go bad, and you know your
data is in good hands or not.
>
> > This would be much appreciated, even if it's a side effect \8)
>
> It will have the patch I think, but you'll want to get comfortable with
> the buildit.s script on tomsrtbt so you can figure out the rest.
I'm fine with that \8) If there's a will, there's a way \8)
