Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:45:30 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Lizardo <cerq@urbi.com.br> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <no subject> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012050937470.19819-100000@qix.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <200012050522.DAA06691@bigboss.urbi.com.br>
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Lizardo wrote: > Hi, > I'm have an iMac G3 running Mac OS X. > > Is it possible to use Iomega Zip 100 using the driver for BSD? > > Any clue would be of great help. > Thanks a lot, > Lizardo. If you mean just want to take the driver file and install it in the right place in MacOSX, certainly no, that will not work. Drivers are either in the kernel or interface directly with it. That means they must be written only fro the kernel that they work on. MacOSX uses a mach kernel with a FreeBSD userland "covering" if you will. They call it darwin. You would have to either dig into the code and port that driver yourself, or more likely re-write it. Somebody may have done it already. So you would have much better luck asking on a darwin mailing list. Somebody may have already written a driver for the Zip drive but apple may have just not released it officially. I'm nearly 100% they wouldn't release the final version of MacOS X without support for things as basic as that. Never know I guess. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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