From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 14:17:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20125 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.dynamik.com (empnet67.empnet.com [208.192.38.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20117 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from natlow@localhost) by hydrogen.dynamik.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA01515; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 06:21:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 06:21:42 -0800 (PST) From: Nat Low X-Sender: natlow@hydrogen.dynamik.com To: Dan Odom cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re (2): ZIP drives? In-Reply-To: <199702251630.KAA09182@thelonious.spidome.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For your SCSI Zip drive, do you need any additional drivers for that, or is it all pretty much self suffient? Do you suppose a SCSI Jaz drive would work the same way? Thanks, Nat On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Dan Odom wrote: > There's a port of the linux driver... search www.freebsd.org or search > the Web for it. I'm using a SCSI zip drive. FreeBSD treats it like a > removable SCSI hard disk -- more like a miniature disk drive than like > a floppy. I can use ufs on it or I can use it for tar. I haven't > tried MS-DOS formats. > > > > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to access an iomega ZIP drive through the parallel port > > from FreeBSD? I would like to be able to treat my ZIP drive as a floppy > > drive on steroids, and access DOS-formatted ZIP cartridges. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Greg Johnson > > johnson@nrtc.northrop.com > > > > > -- > Daniel Odom > Systems administrator (sometimes) and web guy (the rest of the time) > daniel@spidome.net > http://www.spidome.net/daniel.html > >