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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:39:15 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath
Message-ID:  <199709251939.VAA00387@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199709251748.DAA04984@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 26, 97 03:18:53 am"

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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > > It appears to behave like an ATAPI device.  Jason Thorpe's anectdotal 
> > > evidence suggests that Iomega are rampant ATAPI/SCSI fans.
> > 
> > OK, but isn't any proof :)
> 
> Natch.  Still, NetBSD treats it as a SCSI disk that just has the bad 
> fortune to be attached to an IDE interface.  That's gotta count for 
> something 8)

True..

> > If anybody feels like throwing a drive in my direction, I could be
> > persuaded to give it a try...
> 
> Uh, a bit far away here.  How about a login on a machine with one? 8)

Well it takes some of the motivation to do it, and there is nothing
that beats watching the drive go "grrr bonk bonk" when you do something
wrong :)

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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