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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 06:21:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>
To:        Dan Odom <daniel@thelonious.spidome.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re (2): ZIP drives?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970225061959.1502B-100000@hydrogen.dynamik.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702251630.KAA09182@thelonious.spidome.net>

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For your SCSI Zip drive, do you need any additional drivers for that, or 
is it all pretty much self suffient?  Do you suppose a SCSI Jaz drive 
would work the same way?

Thanks, 
Nat

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Dan Odom wrote:

> 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
> 
> 



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