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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega 2GB
Date: 8 Dec 1996 15:05:48 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote:

> >You can also use a QIC-24 drive, like the Wangtek 5150EQ.
                                                          ^
> 
> My 5150ES is a QIC-150, fwiw.
          ^

Yes, it's the trailing letter that makes the difference.  The drives
are mechanically identical, but have a different PCB.  The EQ version
comes with a QIC-24 (QIC-02 ?) adapter card, while the ES version is
SCSI.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)