I have a Zip 100mb SCSI drive which I initially thought was a parallel drive
since it has the same 25 pin d-shell connector. What kind of pci adapter do
I need to make this work?
I have a Zip 100mb SCSI drive which I initially thought was a parallel drive
since it has the same 25 pin d-shell connector. What kind of pci adapter do
I need to make this work?
Previously Andrew Rossmann said:[This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]
You can use any SCSI adapter. The problem is that DB25 connector. You
might be able to find some very basic controller with a DB25 built-in,
such as an Adaptec 2906 or similar. Otherwise, you would need adapter
cables, which can be very expensive.
Unless you MUST keep the ZIP drive to access archived material, I
would dump it. It's no longer practical. I used to have one years ago,
but stopped using it as CD and DVD is so much cheaper. If you only need
it to access old data, I would quickly copy that data to CD's or other
media, then dump the ZIP.
Previously Andrew Rossmann said:[This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]You can use any SCSI adapter. The problem is that DB25 connector. You
might be able to find some very basic controller with a DB25 built-in,
such as an Adaptec 2906 or similar. Otherwise, you would need adapter
cables, which can be very expensive.
These connectors were used by Apple. There are adapters from
ordinary 64 pin flat SCSI cables to DB25. A few years back they
were cheap. Don't know whether they are still being sold.
I agree to that, only if your data is important, don't depend on
cheap and unreliable mass-market media like CD or DVD.
The key to any archiving is MULTIPLE backups.
Arno said:This will not help if all of your copies age fast. The key is to
define in advance what reliability, what archiving period and
what maintenance effort you want to have.
If you want to go with one medium, zero maintenance and several decades,
MOD it the only choice.
If you can tolerate high maintenance (yearly checks) and multiple
media sets, go CD or DVD, but don't fotget to chcek them all each year
or so. And store them correctly. And select good media (pretty hard)
and butn them right, since others could leave you without your data
even faster, even with multiple copies.
Professional archiving tape is somewere in between but too expensive
for most users.
Arno Wagner said:This will not help if all of your copies age fast.
The key is to define in advance what reliability, what archiving
period and what maintenance effort you want to have.
If you want to go with one medium, zero maintenance
and several decades, MOD it the only choice.
If you can tolerate high maintenance (yearly checks)
and multiple media sets, go CD or DVD, but don't fotget to chcek them all each
year or so. And store them correctly. And select good media (pretty hard)
and butn them right, since others could leave you
without your data even faster, even with multiple copies.
Bullshit.
Professional archiving tape is somewere in
between but too expensive for most users.
Previously J. Clarke said:Arno Wagner wrote:
Phthalocyanine dye and hardened surface is the trick. Not that hard at all
to select. See for example Maxell DVD-R Pro.
Further for the price of one 9 gig MO disk you can get DVD-R disks from 15
different manufacturers, which eliminates relying on a single vendor's
quality control.
Uh, Arno, DLT is commonly used for archiving by rather large players who may
be assumed to have the resources to do their homework, IBM claims that it
will last 50-100 years if given reasonable care and it's a HELL of a lot
cheaper than MO. The largest available MO media was 9.1GB last I heard.
Best price I can find on it is 55 bucks a shot. DLTIV tapes cost 25 bucks
a shot and hold 40 gig. The best price I can find on a 9.1GB MO drive is
1500 bucks but a DLT1 drive costs 650 and a DLT8000 around 1100. So DLT
seems a _lot_ more attractive than MO unless the storage duration is really
long.
MO I'm sure has its use, but its limited capacity and high cost make it a
niche product.
But this is all totally ludicrous in response to a question about a Zip
drive.