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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:24:32 -0500
From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To: tiller@connectnet.com (That Doug Guy)
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Subject: Re: Are Iomega's Zip drives compatabile with FreeBSD?
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eThat Doug Guy:
 |	I looked in the FAQ, and did a search on the WWW page, and 
 |didn't see any mention of this.  I am wondering if anyone has had 
 |experiences with Iomega's Paralell Port Zip drives and FreeBSD.  The 
 |basic question is will it work at all, and beyond that, how well does it work?  
  ...

There have been a few messages fly across the groups now and again about
people having patched in some support for parallel Zips I think, but I
can't speak to it.  Might want to surf www.freebsd.org/search.html and
check the mailing list archives.

 |	For my intended purposes, and into the future, the media size
 |with the Zip drive is fine (100M), but since I'm asking, are there any
 |other devices I should look at?  The price is impossible to beat on the
 |Zip drives now, and since they are compatabile with my main platform
 |(OS/2) and DOS, they are a good choice for me.  If there is another
 |device that will give me better bang:buck ratio, and/or is (more)
 |compatible with fbsd, please don't hesitate to let me know. :)

When I bought my ZIP, I was considering this question too.  I settled on a
SCSI ZIP drive as opposed to a parallel because the parallel performance is
so dismal, and for a $70 more than the cost of the drive for a SCSI
controller (NCR-SC200 -- based on NCR53C810 chipset), I can say it
definitely worth it for my uses.  I put DOS and UFS file systems on them
and use 'em just like a removable hard drive (like most other ZIP owners
I'm sure).  Works great.

Randall