From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 24 19:57:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15310 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA15301 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA14803 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA16446; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:26:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610250256.MAA16446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ZIP drives with parallel interface driver To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:26:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610241444.QAA27020@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Oct 24, 96 04:44:14 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert stands accused of saying: > > A friend of mine just told me that someone has written a driver for ZIP > drives over parallel interface. Anyone interested should look at > > ... this actually goes further and is infact a driver for the parallel-port SCSI adapter that the Zip uses. Performance appears to be _very_ poor (around 15k/sec), but could probably be tweaked. The driver is quite compact and looks very tidy. I don't have one of these to play with or I would, but does anyone know what the SCSI/parallel adapter the Zip uses is? > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[