Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:23:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: mmead@Glock.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zip Drives Message-ID: <199505242123.OAA09775@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950524170447.5051C-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at May 24, 95 05:09:10 pm
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> > 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. I just called on these, they are avaliable to mass market (ie, OEM's) only at this time. You are going to be waiting a while for it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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