I'd like to use the CD-RW drive and also a parallel port tape drive for larger quantities of data. I've subscribed to the ParPort conference, and a number of postings there suggest it may possibly work, but to be prepared for problems.
If all else fails, I can do what I was doing on this system, make a compressed backup file on another partition, then burn it to CD. This requires a working operating system. Have plenty of hard drive space -- both boxes have a pair of decent size drives. Also set up a Norton-Iomega minimal installation of Win98SE on a ZIP drive, so I can run the Win95SE restore if needed. Plan to do likewise on the dual boot machine, which also has an internal ZIP drive -- they are very cheap these days. Running Windows from a ZIP drive is slow, but any way to restore a failed system beats starting from scratch. Recall I can set up a ZIP diskette with bootable Linux, but it has been a while since I visited the site describing that, need to find it again. Maybe there is progress. If we can get past a hardware problem -- insufficient IRQs, we could use higher speed hard drive access and perhaps a SCSI card for an additional CD-RW or such. Look forward to some manufacturer breaking that bottleneck, at worst by a kludge like passing through an existing IRQ to another eight, as is done in getting from 8 to 15, using IRQ 2 as a pass-through. Seems to me PC development is reaching limitations of architecture as much as limitations of component performance, but that's not an operating system question, unless someone thinks of a way to bypass a few bottlenecks by clever software design. Choppy At 05:14 PM 12/28/01 -0600, Dustin wrote: >Actually, unless GNU tar doesn't require the old tar syntax, it should have >an -f to specify the destination file rather than the default tape unit. >Anyway, you mentioned something about a CD-RW drive? Is that what you are >using? ================================================ 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. ================================================
