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From: marcolz@stack.urc.tue.nl (Marc Olzheim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: parallel zip drive support
Date: 13 May 1996 10:22:14 GMT
Organization: M.C.G.V. Stack
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Doug Wegscheid (wegscd@whirlpool.com) wrote:
: I am getting ready to bring (some flavor of) UNIX up at home; I need
: support for my parallel port connected IOMEGA Zip drive. I haven't
: seen it listed in the supported devices for FreeBSD or NetBSD.

: Am I missing something, and they do indeed support it? Does Linux?

Linux does, at least the Beta-versions (1.3.*).
It will be in Linux 2.0 as soon as it is released. (Real Soon Now)
: Doug Wegscheid
: wegscd@whirlpool.com

Marc Olzheim,
marcolz@stack.urc.tue.nl