[geeks] Big Damn File System....

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Jun 18 14:09:34 CDT 2001


On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:58:42PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> IDE: Bleck, but cheap.  Not as reliable as I would like, especially

true.

> considering that I don't have anything better than a zip drive for backups
> and I have at least 700megs of stuff that need backup regularly.

geeze, get a cheap DDS-2 4mm tape drive. cheap, media is cheap, holds plenty
of data.

> My workstation is mixed.  It has a 2 gig and 4 gig ide, and a 4gig scsi.
> The IDEs hold OSs, the scsi is for temporary space.

you know, ever since my laptop died, i don't have a single IDE controller here.
i kinda like it that way too. :)

-brian



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