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

["Brent Harding" <bharding greenbaynet com>]

	Oh, how much does the orb drive store? I use debian 2.2, do you just recompile the kernel with scsi support in, and it works?


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On 6/26/00 at 4:30 PM Janina Sajka wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Media for Jazz drives was around $100 for the 2 gig units, last I
>looked. Media for the Orb is around $40, which is part of it's attraction.
>
>I have found the configuration pretty straight forward--but that's because
>I had some help doing it. If memory serves, the RedHat distro can discover
>and configure pretty much on its own. Of course, your mileage may vary,
>but in no way are these more cumbersome than tape drives. No way on that
>score.
>
>
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brent Harding wrote:
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>> 	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:
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>> >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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