From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 14:07:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA21449 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA21439 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:07:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from professor.eng.umd.edu (professor.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.207]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id RAA08703; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:07:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by professor.eng.umd.edu (8.7.4/8.7) id RAA13349; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:07:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:07:24 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@professor.eng.umd.edu To: Jerry Kendall cc: Edward Beili , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iomega Zip vs. SyQust EZ135 ? In-Reply-To: <96Feb26.114027est.20481-1@janus.border.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Edward Beili wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > > > > > At work we have a Zip drive, at home I have the EZ135... > > > > > > EZ135: faster, more capacity, true SCSI... > > > ZIP: ?????? > > > > > > And I have access to both... > > > > What about reliability of the drives and the media? > > > Warrantee is for 5 years... > > > Can you use parallel port version with FreeBSD? > > > Have'nt tried the Zip with FreeBSD.... > EZ135 works great though... I have, I have zip working through the 50 pin ribbon connector on the back of my Adaptec 1542C, and it works fine. Not slow, has been reliable. Probably a lot slower if you use the parallel port version. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------