From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 12:44:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27311 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA21676; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:43:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gary Hall cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Adding a zip drive on a parallel port In-Reply-To: <35D176A3.AA5605FF@mcg-graphics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Gary Hall wrote: > We are trying to utilise a parallel port ZIP drive for making backups > on. We have attached the ZIPdrive to the machine and rebooted the > machine. > > How do we configure the drive and then format it for FreeBSD ? You must run -CURRENT to get the parallel-port bus support, then hope that the vpo driver finds your drive. I'd seriously suggest using a SCSI version instead. It's faster and better supported. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message