From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 20:37:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA10120 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:37:57 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA10114 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:37:54 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA15278; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:37:52 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id XAA11558; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:37:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:37:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IOMega ZIP drive experiences In-Reply-To: <199506080334.UAA00336@caern.protocorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > P.S. To anyone who has an IOMega ZIP drive on order: presumably you've > ordered the SCSI version. Be aware that it's Mac-oriented, more or > less, in that the SCSI cable that comes with it is DB25-to-DB25, > male-to-male. If you have a Centronics SCSI port as the external > SCSI connector on your PC, you'll have to get a DB25-to-Centronics > SCSI cable. Mine cost $30 at Fry's. That better not happen to me. I was asked by the person taking my order what kind of interface I wanted, and when I told her it was for a PC, she correctly identified the 50 pin Amphenol ribbon connector as the one I would get. Doesn't mean I won't get screwed, but I DID try. > > Mike O'Brien > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------