From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 14:24:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA24646 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:24:07 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA24639 for ; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:24:03 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA09775; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:23:15 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505242123.OAA09775@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Zip Drives To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mmead@Glock.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at May 24, 95 05:09:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1343 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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