From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 05:51:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA00322 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epsilon.qmw.ac.uk (epsilon.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.6.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA00317 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk by epsilon.qmw.ac.uk with SMTP-DNS (PP) id <25113-0@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:50:41 +0100 Received: from andromeda.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.89.2] by canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.7.5/QMW-server-2.7s) with SMTP; for ""; poster "Scott Mitchell "; id NAA11008; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:50:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost by ; id NAA02999; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:49:38 +0100 Message-Id: <199604121249.NAA02999@andromeda> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Zip vs. EZ135 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:49:37 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell, CompSci Dept, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK mailto:scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott/ finger scott@ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk for PGP public key