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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
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        Luigi Montanez <prankster83@geocities.com>,
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Subject: Re: Iomega zip-zoom scsi accelerator not supported?
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, K. Marsh wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Randall Hopper wrote:
> > K. Marsh:
> >  |On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Luigi Montanez wrote:
> >  |> Does anyone know if the Zip or any other Iomega drive will work w/ FreeBSD?
> >  |> How about the Microtek scanners? 
> >  |
> >  |I know the zip will work with Linux.
> > 
> > SCSI ZIP works fine with FreeBSD.  I own one myself and have it hanging of
> > an NCR SC-200 (53C810) SCSI board.  Its just another SCSI device, and the
> > SCSI ZIP's performance is very nice.
> >>>SNIP<<<
> 
> I suppose my problem has been that I got the Iomega-recommened zip-zoom
> scsi accelerator for my zip drive. (it's an Adaptec AVA-1502e.)

I can check this next Monday when I get back to work.  We have this in a
Dell and I have a boot floppy down there I can check it with.

> I see that the Adaptec AVA-1505 *is* supported. Is there any plan to
> support the 1502e? Are they essentially the same?

I would guess so, if it's based on the same chip.

> If not, can anyone recommend a low-budget scsi adapter that is supported?
> I really need my zip drive to work with FreeBSD so I can backup and
> upgrade to 2.1.7.

The NCR 53c815 is available for $125 or so and is a great SCSI 2 adapter.
I have two CDs hanging off of it and no problems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major