From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 23:59:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11361 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.well.com (smtp.well.com [206.80.6.147]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11338 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from well.com (spidaman@well.com [206.15.64.10]) by smtp.well.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA28130; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen To: Michael Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199704180259.MAA21069@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My laptop (Dell XPi) has 2.2.1, PAO and the Zip stuff and it works. The IBM drive I have is only 800 megs so having a "big floppy" with a UNIX filesystem provides a level of comfort there. On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html > > > > It's apparently very slow, but functional. > > There's also been some discussion (I think it was on -hackers) with > people who were using this on both 2.2 and 2.1-vintage systems, > and someone had a slightly cleaned-up version they were using. > > I had hoped to get my hands on one to test it with, or to hear back > from the original correspondent to confirm they were happy, but > neither happened. It certainly works as far as I know. > > > Jordan > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > > The next interface will not be another desktop metaphor.... Ian Kallen .... http://www.well.com/user/spidaman/ ....the revolution will not be televised. ===== TO RECEIVE MY PGP KEY, SEND MAIL TO spidey-pgp-info@well.com =======