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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!news1.digital.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.communique.net!communique!not-for-mail From: Jim King <jim@ase.dowjones.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE Iomega ZIP drive Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:31:00 -0500 Organization: Communique Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33AE88A4.67C91831@ase.dowjones.com> References: <5o3m93$ah0@usenet.bridge.com> <87@fridaycs.win-uk.net> <5o5f63$pk$1@dva.in-berlin.de> <5od9bo$594@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5oen23$i61$1@dva.in-berlin.de> <5of2ro$7lu@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5ogucg$oa3$1@dva.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: green.ase.dowjones.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43476 > In <5of2ro$7lu@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > >balu@dva.in-berlin.de (Boris Staeblow) wrote: > > >> >Use the `od' driver then. > >> > >> With the IDE Zip-Drive? :-) > > >Umm, no. With an IDE drive, pray to god, sacrifice a lamb, and hope > >that it will run at all. ;-) > > Exactly. But it's not bad for win 95. Cheap'n'dirty. > (And _much_ faster than the pp-zip). But not as fast as SCSI Zip. IDE Zip is one of the things that has finally convinced me that the next PC I buy will have _no_ IDE devices. Jim