Date: Sat, 14 Dec 96 06:28:06 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hardware), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zip drive Message-ID: <199612141428.GAA09908@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Dec 96 20:49:16 EST." <199612140149.UAA07097@mercury.interpath.com>
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I've got a working Zip drive under FreeBSD 2.1.5R, initially on my 486/33
and now on my P5/120. I chose SCSI because I already had an Adaptec 1542CF
and three SCSI devices.
You may wish to configure AMD to handle mounting of the Zip drive. I've
found it reduces the number of instances I need to become root to mount a
Zip disk.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER)
Open Systems Support BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET
ITSD Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
cschuber@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
"Quit spooling around, JES do it."
>
> I'm trying to usei Nicolas Souchu's 2.1.0 zip driver from
> http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html, and I'm not being entirely
> successful. In fact, after detecting the ppa0 device, it locks up
> (but only if the drive is in fact on--if it's powered off or disconnected,
> I get a "probe failed" message and the boot continues).
>
> I need to get this working quickly, or send it back. Has anybody else
> got a zip drive working? If so, did you use this driver, or get a
> SCSI adaoptor? If the former, can you give me any pointers? If the
> latter, do you have a laptap (PCMCIA) SCSI adaptor that works?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On.
>
> "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other
> account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
>
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