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To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@glock.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:25:37 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>	Has anyone tried the new IOMEGA Zip drives?  They're the $200
>drives with the $20 100M cartridges.  I've been wondering how reliable they
>are, if they could be used for fairly easy backup of a FreeBSD system, and
>if anyone has had any problems interfacing them to FreeBSD (it's a SCSI
>peripheral, so I would tend to think it would look like any other
>removable drive).  Thanks in advance.
>
>
>-matt
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>-- 
>Matthew C. Mead  -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research -
>                 -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration
>Work Related     -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu    |     mmead@goof.com <-     All Other
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As soon as they come off backorder, one of them is coming my way to be tested
with the aic7xxx driver.  I'll let the list know what the results are once
it shows up.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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