I believe that USB is one way that manufacturers are attempting to circumvent the whole IRQ issue on the PC architecture.
Regards, Dustin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Chopin Cusachs > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 10:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: backing up dual-boot systems was RE: [brluglist] won't be > abl e to make BRLUG Newbie Hour at February meeting > > > > 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. > ================================================ > ================================================ 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. ================================================
