Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:17:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: William Wong <willwong@anime.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zip drives Message-ID: <20000119131712.A281@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <004f01bf620b$cf79ede0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>; from willwong@anime.ca on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:29:04PM -0500 References: <004f01bf620b$cf79ede0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:29:04PM -0500, William Wong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 3.4R and I was thinking of purchasing a zip drive to
> back up files on my old 486.
>
> I remember when I bought the internel scsi zip it came with a cheapy looking
> isa zip only scsi card. Is that supported? And would that be my best bet
> or should I look for a parallel port version?
My recommendation is for the external SCSI ZIP drive. It's faster than
the parallel port version, and you can still shift it from machine to
machine. Addtionally, it's SCSI, which FreeBSD supports very well.
Jonathan Chen
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