Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> (My favourit part is when you open the "My Computer" window, and you 
> have a CD in the drive. Now Windoze locks up while it spins up the 
> CD-ROM drive to check what the volume label is... What, you can't 
> *cache* that?

Yeah, I will say the caching is rather poorly done for that stuff.

>> That's why I like disk drives for backups better. :-)
> 
> And what on earth makes you think that using different backup hardware 
> would solve a problem with a poorly designed software product?

Just experience. Everybody knows how to reset a hard drive with an 
error. Tape drives are all different and all flakey, IME.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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