From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 16:20:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E5E14F49 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: from jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz [10.1.3.1]) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05009; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:17:13 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA00486; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:17:12 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:17:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: William Wong Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zip drives Message-ID: <20000119131712.A281@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <004f01bf620b$cf79ede0$0300a8c0@anime.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <004f01bf620b$cf79ede0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>; from willwong@anime.ca on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:29:04PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message