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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drive on parallel Port?
Date: 17 Apr 1997 23:34:30 GMT
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In article <86lo6if7ek.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>,
	Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:

> Does FreeBSD support the ZIP drive for parallel ports?
> 

Yes.

Nicolas Souchu's port of the Linux ppa3 driver can be found at

   http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html

I use version 0.40 on FreeBSD 2.1.6.

Note however, that this is not something you want to use all the time.
It is unbelievably slow - but usable.  What I have done is compiled
a special kernel which I boot from in single user mode.  From there
I have a shell script which mounts my interesting partitions, and the
ZIP drive and does a backup. (tar | gzip -9)  It works.

If you don't mind sitting through a 45+ second probe, and have
parallel ports to burn, you could put in your everyday kernel.

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON