Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:09:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zip Drives Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950524170447.5051C-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505241959.PAA06333@Glock.COM>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 24 May 1995, matthew c. mead wrote: > 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. > I made a deal with Justin Gibbs: I lend him a zip drive, he works on the driver I use (2842A) and tried to get it working. I ordered one from MicroWarehouse, they said they'd ship in days, then weeks, now they're not sure. I guess this is waiting on MicroWarehouse, unless someone knows a SURE better supplier. Thank Justin for the offer, I guess. BTW, it's supposed to go direct to Justin, I won't see it until afterwards, but a Mac'ified friend of mine gave me a demo, and what a drive! Imagine a FAST 100 meg floppy! Access times quoted at 29 msec. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SUN.3.91.950524170447.5051C-100000>