>> The removable disc hard drives are generally intended for primary storage
>> use, not just for backups so you shouldn't have any problems.
>
>The usual warranty these days seems to be three years for large IDE drives,
>five years for SCSI.  The lack of any mention of a warranty in the
>advertisements that I've seen for the Jaz suggests that it's only a year.
>
>> The new Syquest 1.3GB SyJet drives are also worth a look.
>
>Do they actually exist?  Even Watford Electronics seem to have removed them
>from their price lists.   ;-)

They have been released in SCSI form (and parallel?) in the US. The are 
expecting
them in the UK by December in SCSI and parallel forms with the internal EIDE 
to
follow shortly (hopfully at the same time for the UK)

They have a 3 year warranty on the drive with a 5? year warranty on the 
media
it's self so it's close to that of the SCSI drives that you mentioned above.

>> Changing discs whilst running RiscBSD may be more of a problem.
>
>I hope it's not going to need more than 1GB.   ;-)

If you've got a RiscBSD partition on each cartridge then can't you just 
mount
them and umount them as needed like a floppy disc?


James Hunter
Software Engineer / Database Developer / IT Business Support