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Cc: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net>
Subject: Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
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>
>> How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I

i have USB drives. not an adapter

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