I used to have al kinds of problems with IRQ's. Since about three years ago I have never had another problem. You must be running this stuff on OLD hardware huh? I used to have nightmares about Win95 and IRQ problems. I remember having to pull out all the hardware with jumpers, set those, then run the plug-n-play setup software on the 28.8 cardinal modem till I was blue in the face!
Maybe you should just upgrade the hardware? MB's are really cheap now. You should look into the Abit boards with the 4 ide ports = 8 drives. 4 of the ports are UDMA 66. you can probably find a board and a chip with ram for $75 now. Just my $.02..... Shannon On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 21:35, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > > I'm getting 10GB tape cartridges at $20 each, 7.5 GB ones for about $15 -- > compressed, of course. So the tape has come down. I'm paying $20 for > the tape drive. There are problems running more than 4 IDE devices..... > particularly without an IRQ to spare. > > Many years ago there were only 8 IRQs available, and a kludge passed > IRQ 2 through to another block of 8, making a total of 15 usable. Maybe > we need the designers of motherboards to do that again so we could > have 5 or 6 hard drives running at once.......USB 2. may help. > > Choppy > > > > At 09:22 PM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > >I go with Jeff's thoughts. > > > >About two months ago, I bought an IBM 60GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 drive for $180 > >with free shipping. This is 1/5 the cost/GB of the Ditto tapes alone, not > >considering the cost of the tape drive. Say you want to back up 16GB > >total - You have an $80 drive and 8 - 2GB tapes @ $30 = $240 for a total > >cost of $320 to back up the 16GB with tape. It would cost you $180 with the > >hard drive and you would have over 70% of the drive still free for other > >things that you might want to do. In addition, the hard drive is much > >faster. > > > >Hard drives are really cheap these days. It is truly incredible. > > > >Bill DePierri > > > > > >----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >Behalf Of John Hebert > >Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:18 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > >A hard drive can't match the reliability and cost per > >GB of tape. At least for now. > > > >John Hebert > > > >--- Jeff Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I paid around $80 for the 2Gig Ditto Tape backup > > > that I had. The tapes were > > > close to $30 a piece. Junk I say. That stuff was > > > junk. A seperate hard > > > drive sounds a lot better to me. Or possibly a Jaz > > > drive. Have you thought > > > of that? > > > Jeff > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:16 PM > > > Subject: RE: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > > > > > > > > > > > > An IDE card requires an IRQ. Until somebody comes > > > up with > > > > a way to create additional IRQs, that won't help. > > > Had to ditch > > > > a Promise ATA66 card for lack of an available IRQ. > > > > > > > > I'm talking about a parallel port tape drive for > > > about $20, tapes > > > > in the $10 to $20 range.... > > > > > > > > Choppy > > > > > > > > Choppy > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > > > your subscription information. > > > > ================================================ > > > > > > ================================================ > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > > your subscription information. > > > ================================================ > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Make a great connection at Yahoo! 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