From:	"Paulo Colaço" <c DOT m AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt>
To:	<ark AT mos DOT ru>
Cc:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: VCR backup ???
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:43:51 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0
Message-ID:	<19970923094726.AAA13318@host.telepac.pt>

>X-Comment-To: Christopher Croughton
>
>Hi!
>
>22-óÅÎ-97 16:11 crough45 AT amc DOT de (Christopher Croughton) wrote to
ark AT mos DOT ru:
>> Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>
>> >      We use portable HD, which connects to LPT and use power from
keyboard
>> > connector. They size are 1Gb. We can by, for example, 2GB pHD, but they
too
>> > expensive.
>> But if I understand you, that's a hard disk unit.  Not really fair
>> comparison with tape.
>
>     But fast, _big_ and portable. ;) Only disk unit and two wire - no
more.
>
>> >      Speed of this device limited only by speed of LPT, which for
EPP/ECP,
>> > AFAIR, no less than 500Kb/s (I detect 800Kb/s). So 1GB can be filled on
new
>> > computers les than half hour.
>> Tape streamers which operate on the parallel port can do similar transfer
>> speeds, of course, but the mechanical speed of the tape limits them.
>
>     We try magneto-optical device with 128Mb's diskettes, but they heavy,
>requires external power and works slowly like floppy. :(
>
>>  That's
>> why I say that SCSI isn't necessary for tape streamers, even the prarllel
>> port is faster than the tape streamer can take the data (and with the
>> parallel port it makes it a lot easier to share between machines).
>
>     You hear about Arvid? This is interface card, which allow backup to
>VCR. This is widely used among us - one video cassette allow backup up to
>4Gb. And this is very reliable and not so slow.

Hi ! Can you tell me something else about Arvid, what OS do you experienced
with it ? do they have a url ? Thank you. This could be very interesting.

Bye

Paulo Colaco Medeiros

- Raw text -