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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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