From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 11:56:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15705 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15566 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00468; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:54:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:54:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bart Muyzer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bart Muyzer Subject: Re: Internal IDE ZIP drive support? In-Reply-To: <199703211104.MAA21547@domino.cv.ruu.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Bart Muyzer wrote: > Dear list, > > Having searched the FAQ and the hardware support guide, I am still in > doubt... hence this quick question: > > Will FreeBSD 2.2 support an internal IDE ZIP drive? I know I have to be > careful with mount/umount before removing the floppies... It really depends on how it reports itself. If it acts like a CD it should work okay. I haven't heard from anyone with an IDE one. I have an external SCSI one here with me awaitng a proper adapter to connect to my NCR. > Will FreeBSD 2.2 handle this as any "normal" IDE drive? Good question. > Will I be able to read all supported filesystem types (including > MS-DOS)?? If it can see it, it should work as any other drive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major