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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Zip drives supported ?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 12:50:56 +0200
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Ted Wisniewski <ted@oz.plymouth.edu> wrote:
>>Zip drives from Iomega sounds interesting for backup and archiving.
>>
>>Do they need a specific driver or are they supported by FreeBSD ?
>>
>> Herve Soulard.
>
>If you use the SCSI version they should be usable without much effort.
You might notice a spurious ``Unit attention'' message at the first
access after each media change, but you don't need to care for this.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)