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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please help with upgrade-questions to FBSD-2.1
Date: 3 Oct 1995 16:20:46 +0100
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Stefan Esser <se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:

>|> 	-Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with
>|> 	 this drives ?
>
>ZIP drives should be supported as harddisk devices.
>Just be sure to unmount them before changing disks
>(or do the drives offer a media lock feature ?)

I think the sd driver doesn't support the "prevent media removal"
feature.  The od driver will.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)