[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

[Paul Wilson]

I have used Panasonic optical drives on a Linux box before now with pretty
satisfying results. However, the drives are *SLOW* in comparison to
magnetics.

Paul

> > anyone have anything good/bad to say about internal jaz/zip or sparq
> > drives (the latter 2 are 1gb)?
> > is a zip worth getting? - im starting to think it may be, reasonably
cheap
> > and cartridges are cheap ($25 or there abouts).
> 
> Include the price of media in your evaluation. ZIP and the other drives
> come out rather dear when you include 3 Gb of storage.
> 
> Consider a Fujitsu MO drive too. Bear in mind too that 640 Mb media have
2
> K sectors - unsupported in kernels to 2.0.34 so you'd need a 2.1 kernel.
> 
> According to an article in APC Mag there's not much performance
difference
> between the MO drives and some of the magnetic competitors and the MO
> drive though the MO drive IS relatively slow (compared with my fixed
> drives).
> 
> the MO drive is Extremely slow under NT but quite reasonable on OS/2 and
> Linux.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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