[ale] SparQ drives?

[Linux Idiot]

Don Allison wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone have any personal experience with a SparQ drive?  Horror
> stories or otherwise?  I have a Syquest EZ-135 that's been flakey
> (randomly spins disks down and ejects them, etc) so I'm a bit leery
> of another Syquest drive...but 135MB isn't enough any more, and both
> the Jaz and Syjet are $100 more than the SparQ (and cartridges cost
> two to three times as much).

Although you mentioned that the Syjet price is high, I've got one and
it's been working under Linux as well as NT 4.0.  One note though, you
currently can not backup NT on a Syjet, NT backup looks for tape devices
only and the backup routines that come with the Syjet do not work for
NT.

> 
> I'll be using it under NT4, Win98, and most importantly, Linux
> (currently Slackware 3.4 since I never got Redhat to successfully
> install).  Since I want to move it from machine to machine, I'm
> looking at the parallel port version (since it doesn't come with a
> SCSI one).
> 
> Any comments appreciated greatly!
> 
> Thanks,
> don

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