Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:49:37 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Zip vs. EZ135 Message-ID: <199604121249.NAA02999@andromeda>
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Hi all,
I'm considering buying some kind of removable-media drive for my FreeBSD
box, for backups and for archiving infrequently used files. Probably
either the Iomega Zip or Syquest EZ-135. I've looked through the mail
archives but I'm still not sure exactly what the situation is with these
drives and FreeBSD. So here are all my questions in one place -- sorry if
any of these are FAQs.
- I assume both of these drives will work (reasonably) happily under
FreeBSD (currently 2.0.5, soon to be 2.1)? If either of them won't,
please let me know before I do something stupid :)
- I guess they would work like a floppy or CDROM drive, so you can
mount/unmount and change disks without any problems?
- The disks can be formatted as UFS? In past experience with Syquests the
cartridges had to be formatted using a special program that I guess would
run under DOS (and leave you with a FAT format disk).
- Backups (using dump/restore) will work? Over multiple volumes?
- I don't currently have a SCSI adapter, and it's hard to justify spending
~200 pounds for a decent VLB adapter, on my student budget, for a device
that won't be in constant use. I know it's probably a sad and tragic
device, but will the so-called ZipZoom adapter (bundled with the drive
for almost no money) do the job under FreeBSD? I read somewhere that it's
just a re-labelled low-end Adaptec so I guess it would work fine.
- There is an IDE version of the EZ-135. I don't really want to go any
further down the IDE road, but is here any chance that it might work?
That's all, I think. Sorry about the volume of questions, but I want to
make sure I'm getting the right thing. Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers,
Scott
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