Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:22:30 -0200 From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ZipDrive Message-ID: <36943686.D8B085E3@netshell.vicosa.com.br> References: <36941337.7F5AD192@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <36943337.5456C8DE@voicenet.com>
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This is a problem, my IOMEGA ZIP Drive is running on Parallel Port.
My F-BSD version is 2.2.8.
Can anybody point how to get my zip working?
Peter Schwenk wrote:
>
> Mr. Rios:
>
> I've only experience with the IDE version of the ZIP drive. It works
> fine as the IDE floppy device (/dev/wfd0). You just need to make sure
> that
>
> options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> device wfd0
>
> are in your kernel configuration. If you are still using the
> uncustomized kernel that came with 2.2.8-Release, then it's already
> enabled. Just use /dev/wfd0 as any other drive. I've used it for both
> MSDOS and UFS type filesystems. It's my only backup device.
>
> The SCSI version would work well also.
>
> I don't know if there is a driver for the parallel port ZIP drive.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote:
>
> > How can i configure my system (FreeBSD 2.2.8) to support my zip drive?
> >
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