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From: dunham@gdl.msu.edu (Steve Dunham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega Zip Drives and FBSD
Date: 20 May 1996 14:31:28 -0400
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In article <4noak9$35i@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

> andrew@asstdc.com.au (Andrew Ridge) wrote:

> > >> Do Iomega zip drives work with a freebsd system if the zip is scsi?
> > >
> > >YES,
> > 
> >   What about the parallel port versions????

> Nobody stepped forward to do this.  (It's masochistic, you know? :)

There is a Linux driver at

  ftp://gear.torque.net/pub/ppa.c

(I did not write it, and I don't use it.)

This would probably be a good starting point for a FreeBSD driver.

Steve
dunham@gdl.msu.edu