On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:02:53 +0200 Hello Cliff from Lourens: " Hello, " I am looking at the feasibility of various backup " devices for use with Linux. It would prefereably " work out of the box with Linux. " " I have eliminated ZIP drives, they are ridiculously " over-priced (at least in Holland) and 250 MB is not " big enough. " I have CD/RW and could use that I suppose but it's " a bit of a fiddle. " Dat would be ok, but the devices are expensive, " although at tapes are cheap. " DLT woud be out of my price range, and way over-kill. " " Any other ideas or devices ? " I have both spare SCSI and USB capacity on one of " my networked systems. And parallel port capacity on " all of them. I would rather not look at IDE devices " (this is more to do with what I do with my systems " than anything philosophical). " " What capacity I hear you cry ! Say around 1gig+, " compressed. " " And don't suggest LS120 :) " "You and me both", for home use I imagine. Currently, I use a removeable IDE hdd because hdd's are so cheap I am told that LG have just released an "affordable" combination DVD/CD writer in this country and I am going to look at their site for some more info. I believe that the model number is DAD-8020B. http://www.lge.com/c_product/catalog/product_information.jsp?mdl_pfx=4CDES&a... I do not know if/how Linux will handle this - any comments anyone?? Bye. *** If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional and AMD Athlon Registered Linux User Lourens Steenkamp Republic of South Africa _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com