Re: linux, backing up, jazz drives and others question

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

Brent, you're calling them "backup" drives, but that is simply not
correct. A "backup" is one kind of use you can put a Jazz or an Orb drive
to, but it is far more than that. For example, you can simply store files
on them.

How easy is to use them?

Very easy. They're just another drive designation.


On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote:

> 			How easy is it to use debian 2.2 potato with various backup drives,
> jazz, tape, etc? The jazz drive howto looks quite easy to set up, does it
> work fairly well? How expensive are the cartridges for it? I rarely heard
> of what it was until I looked for a howto and passed it on the way. Does it
> get autodetected when you have it hooked to a scsi card? If so, which is
> the best controller to use under linux. I'm not real technically inclined
> to know what's compatible with which driver, but I'd like to be able to
> make a backup of my system. CD is out of the question because my cd-burner
> is usb, which isn't yet supported. Finally, will the jazz drive work in
> linux with a laptop?
> That ftape thing seemed kind of misleading. I thought the adaptec scsi
> cards work in linux, or not all of them?
> Thanks.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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