From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 9:40:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C23D37B406 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5DA9255407; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFBA51610; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:26:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Cc: j mckitrick , Ryan Masse , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: <200106261627.f5QGRUx01832@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-06-26, dochawk@psu.edu scribbled: # They're really quite useful. I had to pout my printer on top of a file # cabinet (whose idea was it to give professors a 3'x5' desk and no # computer table?). My cable just wasn't long enough, though. Zip to # the rescue! plug in a parallel zip drive, then plug the printer into # the zip! YOu'rein business. hehe... I do remember using my Parallel Zip drive as a pass-thru device to my ol' HP DeskJet 855... but if something wrote to the Zip drive during a print job... either the printer would cry uncle, Windows would cry uncle, or the Zip drive would disappear from the system (thus causing Windows to cry uncle again). Now I have gotten rid of all of my Parallel equipment and moved to SCSI (for drives and scanners) and USB for other stuff. heh... even the amount of desk space that some of my teachers and professors had were larger than 3'x5'... but of course, many of them didn't have printers to deal with. # I suppose I could have asked for a deisk to put in it, but my data's # more important than that . . . -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message