From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 05:23:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01747 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 05:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-1045.jumpnet.com [207.8.67.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01737 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 05:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id HAA04593; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 07:22:52 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD AND ZIP DRIVE References: <351F63C9.552C@ami.com.au> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 30 Mar 1998 07:22:21 -0600 In-Reply-To: Nicholas Lysaght's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:20:09 +1000" Message-ID: <8567kwz52q.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicholas Lysaght writes: > I have an Iomega ZIP-100 drive, which I would like to run under FreeBSD. > From the docs I'v read, it looks a hard slog. You don't say whether it's a parallel port version or a SCSI version. I'm running a SCSI ZIP drive, no problems at all. > But a friend who runs Red Hat Linux mailed me to look for an > "automounter deamon". Yes, FreeBSD has the automount daemon -- look for `amd'. I don't think you need it to use the ZIP drive. Your friend is probably just recommending it as a convenience. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message