From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 21:56:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02776 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02771 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA01277; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970418005101.46732@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:51:01 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: Michael Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? References: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com> <199704180259.MAA21069@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: <199704180259.MAA21069@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Fri, Apr 18, 1997 at 12:29:03PM +0930 Sender: owner-hackers@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 18, 1997 at 12:29:03PM +0930, Michael Smith wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html > > > > It's apparently very slow, but functional. > > There's also been some discussion (I think it was on -hackers) with > people who were using this on both 2.2 and 2.1-vintage systems, > and someone had a slightly cleaned-up version they were using. > > I had hoped to get my hands on one to test it with, or to hear back > from the original correspondent to confirm they were happy, but > neither happened. It certainly works as far as I know. At any rate, it's certainly worth looking into. The ZIP drives are very handy, and although I use a SCSI model, the Parallel ones are wildy popular. Anyone know what type Micron and Compaq have started to ship with their PCs?? ZIP certainly seems to have become the de Facto standard, so PPA support would be cool. -Mark > > > Jordan > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert