Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:07:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: yura@binary.net, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <199810072107.OAA02528@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:14:14 PDT." <ML-3.3.907773254.54.patl@asimov>
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> My experience is that none of the removable media systems has the long > term duty cycle reliability necessary for the system disks. I haven't > tried the LS120 yet; but I see nothing in the technology that would > cause me to expect them to be better suited for this purpose than a Jaz, > Zip, Syquest, etc. drive. Magneto-optical. In my previous job I had spent quite a lot of time pounding these disks; mostly the 600MB 5.25" variety, but also some of the larger units. I would expect that the smaller 3.5" units are comparable, but I haven't had much exposure to them. We were using Ricoh and Sony mechanisms close to 10 years old, with disks as old or older. They're incredibly robust provided you keep them clean. Cleaning them isn't too hard either, as long as you do it properly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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