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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@village.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Tape Backup
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, markb@chartway.com
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>I know that the Linux folks have a driver for the parallel version of
>the zip drive.  Basically, the parallel version of the zip drive has a
>parallel port -> scsi adapter built into it, but still costs the same
>or a little less than the pure scsi version.  Go figure.

Be thankful that it doesn't cost twice as much for SCSI.  SCSI cdroms
seem to be twice as expensive as IDE cdroms here if you can find the
SCSI version.

I bought the external SCSI version of the zip drive.  It cost about the
same as a parallel version, except for 13% extra for an external cable,
and about 50% extra in wasted time shopping for the cable.

Bruce