On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:14:14AM +0200, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
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&mdl_cod=DAD-8020B&mdl_mak=1&navigation=1,18,4
Well it is not exactly for my use alone, I will be on-line 24/7 in a few months and several people will be using my network (and helping pay a bit towards the hardware on it I hope!) so I need to do something a bit less ad-hoc than what I do now. Mmm, I looked at the price of DVD writers the other day, not enough loose change in my pocket unfortunately. I really do not want an IDE solution. -- Regards Cliff