From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 08:32:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00485 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelonious.spidome.net (thelonious.spidome.net [205.153.247.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00478 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daniel@localhost) by thelonious.spidome.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) id KAA09182; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:30:50 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Odom Message-Id: <199702251630.KAA09182@thelonious.spidome.net> Subject: Re: ZIP drives? To: johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:30:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9702251512.AA09204@charming.nrtc.northrop.com> from "johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com" at "Feb 25, 97 07:12:51 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There's a port of the linux driver... search www.freebsd.org or search the Web for it. I'm using a SCSI zip drive. FreeBSD treats it like a removable SCSI hard disk -- more like a miniature disk drive than like a floppy. I can use ufs on it or I can use it for tar. I haven't tried MS-DOS formats. > > Hello, > > Is it possible to access an iomega ZIP drive through the parallel port > from FreeBSD? I would like to be able to treat my ZIP drive as a floppy > drive on steroids, and access DOS-formatted ZIP cartridges. > > Thanks in advance, > > Greg Johnson > johnson@nrtc.northrop.com > -- Daniel Odom Systems administrator (sometimes) and web guy (the rest of the time) daniel@spidome.net http://www.spidome.net/daniel.html