Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:24:32 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: tiller@connectnet.com (That Doug Guy) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: Are Iomega's Zip drives compatabile with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Mutt.19961216082432.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199612160332.TAA28290@smtp.connectnet.com>; from That Doug Guy on Dec 15, 1996 19:32:07 -0800 References: <199612160332.TAA28290@smtp.connectnet.com>
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eThat Doug Guy: | I looked in the FAQ, and did a search on the WWW page, and |didn't see any mention of this. I am wondering if anyone has had |experiences with Iomega's Paralell Port Zip drives and FreeBSD. The |basic question is will it work at all, and beyond that, how well does it work? ... There have been a few messages fly across the groups now and again about people having patched in some support for parallel Zips I think, but I can't speak to it. Might want to surf www.freebsd.org/search.html and check the mailing list archives. | For my intended purposes, and into the future, the media size |with the Zip drive is fine (100M), but since I'm asking, are there any |other devices I should look at? The price is impossible to beat on the |Zip drives now, and since they are compatabile with my main platform |(OS/2) and DOS, they are a good choice for me. If there is another |device that will give me better bang:buck ratio, and/or is (more) |compatible with fbsd, please don't hesitate to let me know. :) When I bought my ZIP, I was considering this question too. I settled on a SCSI ZIP drive as opposed to a parallel because the parallel performance is so dismal, and for a $70 more than the cost of the drive for a SCSI controller (NCR-SC200 -- based on NCR53C810 chipset), I can say it definitely worth it for my uses. I put DOS and UFS file systems on them and use 'em just like a removable hard drive (like most other ZIP owners I'm sure). Works great. Randall
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