From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 16:07:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA26792 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 16:07:57 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA26786 for ; Wed, 24 May 1995 16:07:55 -0700 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.252.21.73]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14709(3)>; Wed, 24 May 1995 16:02:41 PDT Received: by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01644; Wed, 24 May 95 19:02:44 EDT Message-Id: <9505242302.AA01644@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: "matthew c. mead" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zip Drives In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 1995 12:59:43 PDT." <199505241959.PAA06333@Glock.COM> Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:02:43 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 - > -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration >Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other >---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- ----- 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