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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!dciteleport.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!raven.eva.net!bighorn.accessnv.com!jca 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 Organization: Access Nevada Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57i44o$2n9@raven.eva.net> References: <329C3031.372C@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bighorn.accessnv.com Cc: grundman@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. -- /* ** Internet: jca@accessnv.com | Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Clinton. ** jca@anv.net | Intel is the word for 'errata.' */