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

["Brent Harding" <bharding greenbaynet com>]

	Wow, cool. How expensive are the disks for these drives? I thought it'd be easier than a tape drive because tape involves a lot of work to set up before things work.
I thought these were easy. Don't you have to enter all kinds of scsi id's and junk in to files? It's just hard to know what's compatible in linux, I heard not all adapters are.


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On 6/26/00 at 1:55 PM Janina Sajka wrote:

>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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