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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        noc@hdk5.net
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK2K9PEk9msBaoSmiy8%2BwJpy60LOixAsYAk2DOFo=TMNrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net> wrote:
>
> I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to
> transfer some archives to new media.
>
> I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can
> be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash
> drives and floppies show up but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine
> has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the
> hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had
> been transferred years ago but they were only found recently.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/article.html

Also at /boot/kernel/vpo.ko


-- 
Adam Vande More



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