[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

[HILL Walter]

Hi,

I've used an external parallel zip drive at home for a year & a half and
it's been a real blessing. It may not be the fastest but it sure is
convenient since most PC's I attach it to have a parallel port. My dad
has an internal SCSI ZIP which is quite a bit faster but you lose an ISA
slot. The SCSI card they give you with the drive a fairly crippled
Adaptec.

I've got a Jaz drive at work (the 1GB version) & that's been very handy
too. I work with largish data file & I tend to keep them on Jaz disk
rather than on my PC's hard disk. The extra expense comes when you need
more SCSI cards; like a PCMCIA one so that I can cart the Jaz drive
around with my laptop when I go 'visiting'.

Reliability has been good on all of them, although I had problems at
work when I switched from Win 3.11 to NT 4.0. It exposed a design flaw
in my PC's motherboard which caused it to trash a disk. Hurrah for Acer.

Walter....
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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Gavin Tweedie [SMTP:tweedie at nw.com.au]
	Sent:	Friday, June 12, 1998 3:19 PM
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

	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).


	Gavin