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Date:      Wed, 24 May 1995 16:02:43 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        "matthew c. mead" <mmead@glock.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Zip Drives 
Message-ID:  <9505242302.AA01644@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 1995 12:59:43 PDT." <199505241959.PAA06333@Glock.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
>
>-- 
>Matthew C. Mead  -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research -
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I have the same question...

They just had an article in the Rochester paper, saying none of the computer
stores have seen them (but they're on order -- CompUsa and computer city...)

marty



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