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From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega 2GB
Date: 27 Nov 1996 19:17:43 GMT
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Norbert Grundmann (grundman@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:

: I would like to buy an Iomega 2GB streamer, running on the
: parallel port. Does anyone have experience with it? Does
: it run under FreeBSD 2.1.5 and other operating systems?
: (I do not think of Windows 95)

I don't think so.  If I recall correctly, parallel port devices are
still in the experimental stages.  Even the Linux ppa driver for
parallel Zip drives is nowhere near as robust as SCSI support.

Floppy port tape drivers are supported along with QIC-02/36 tape
drives.  Otherwise you have to go SCSI.
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