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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:05:38 -0400
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net>
Subject:   Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Message-ID:  <B8.5B.02168.2A2D8EF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>

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from Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net>:

> Aloha Woj,

> How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I
> read there is a USB to ide on the market.

I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives.

One problem with SCSI was so many different hardware interfaces in terms of number of holes/pins, meaning incompatibility.

Tom




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