I read your message after I made that point. And yes, I agree that USB is a good solution.
Regards, Dustin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Shannon Roddy > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:51 PM > To: Baton Rouge Linux Users Group > Subject: RE: backing up dual-boot systems was RE: [brluglist] won't be > able to make BRLUG Newbie Hour at February meeting > > > On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 15:08, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > I believe that USB is one way that manufacturers are attempting to > > circumvent the whole IRQ issue on the PC architecture. > > That was my point... Perhaps he could invest $30 in a usb card and get > printer adapters etc to release some IRQs. I was in a hurry so I just > put in USB. > > I have successfully used the Belkin USB/parallel adapters under linux so > at least he could release a IRQ for something else. > > > > > 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. > > ================================================ > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > > ================================================ > 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. ================================================
