[ILUG] Cheap tape drives

[Thallophytic g0d]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Paul Jakma (paul at clubi.ie):
>
> > So why use tapes anymore (if cost is a factor)?
>
> Umm... because cost _is_ a factor?
>
> Because you're not likely to find hot-swap ATA hard drives that actually
> work, and work in Linux (as ATA was never designed to support that
> functionality, and somebody's kludge du jour is rather unlikely to have
> kernel support)?
>
> Because by the time you piggyback ATA hard drives onto an interface that
> _could_ conceivably reliably do Linux hot-swap (IEEE 1394, Compact PCI,
> HotPlug PCI) with the experimental http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
> code, it's no longer inexpensive?

<troll>

So your point is that Linux is crap at hot-swap ? Unlike most modern
OS [pl.] ?

</troll>

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>

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ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in the
early 1970's. In constrast, a.out is a misspelling of the French word for the
month of August. What the two have in common is beyond me, but Linux users seem
to use the two words together. (Seen on c.o.l.misc)