OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

Well, there's one of the differences between backup and file copy. If you introduce a spare disk to a system then, at least in the case of the various post-'9x Windows, the OS "sees" it, registers it, and any viruses on the system are, immediately on that drive as well. With a TAPE utility, however, virus or not, if the program runs, it copies the data to tape under control of a backup utility that either doesn't work because it has been corrupted, or, if you were clever and run the program form a write-locked removable, then it (the backup utility) runs on the removable platter and transfer the data, corrupted or not, as the OS can't deal directly with the tape. A virus that gets onto a tape won't be an executable, hence probably won't go there except in the form of already-corrupted files. As a result, I've concluded DISK is unsuitable for backup on Windows PC's. Now, I recently saw a DVD writer for under $500. ($375) If there's any sort of support software for backup, that might present a useable solution, since a DVD writer would not appear to Windows as a disk drive. Of course, MAC OS may not be so virus friendly, but I don't know about that. The "spare" HD would have to be a SCSI drive, right? How does the MAC go about recognizing a valid SCSI device? What has to be done to a JAZ platter to make it (the MAC) recognize it. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Foust" <jfoust(a)threedee.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Re: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa? a device