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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Do the 'zip accelerator' cards work as scsi adaptors?
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:04:31 GMT
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Caveat: I haven't actually tried it. I could be mis-remembering in
any event.
However, a friend of mine who bought one of these (to use with Linux,
I believe) told me it had an AIC6260 SCSI chip on it, which _is_
supported by FreeBSD, and should work as just a normal SCSI adapter.
Make sure the store you buy it from has a good return policy, give it
a try, and if it doesn't work, you can always return it.
Note that there has been discussion of a new parallel port driver for
the ZIP drive, and you can buy parallel port cards for about $20.
That may also be an option for you. As for speed, my SCSI ZIP has
never been phenomenally fast (I get about 100k/sec transfer rate), and
I'm not certain the parallel ones are any slower. It's still a lot
faster than floppies, though.
- Tim Kientzle
In article <4t7v0p$pmk@news.inc.net>, Jeremy Nelson <nelson@cs.uwp.edu> wrote:
>My question is:
>Is this [ZIP Accelerator] a card, that if i purchased it and
>installed it, would act as a normal scsi host adaptor? Or does it
>use a proprietary interface, meaning i would need to use a regular
>scsi adaptor to use the zip drive?