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From: balu@dva.in-berlin.de (Boris Staeblow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Iomega ZIP drive
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:42:59 +0200
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In <87@fridaycs.win-uk.net> bwspoor@fridaycs.win-uk.net (B W Spoor) writes:

> 
>In article <5o3m93$ah0@usenet.bridge.com>, Michael Hughes (mhughes@bridge.com) writes:
>>  Is anyone using an IDE ZIP drive under FreeBSD?
>>
>>
>Didn't know that you could get anIDe ZIP drive, thought that they
>only came in SCSI or Parallel Printer port flavours (really SCSI
>with adapter cable).

I have such a drive. I can mount it with UFS or MSDOS-FS without
problems. It's like a harddrive.
Only changing the ZIP-Disc will crash the system. :-(

Boris
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balu@dva.in-berlin.de
   Boris Staeblow