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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!globalip.ch!imp.ch!SUNqbc.risq.net!news1.bellglobal.com!sympatico.ca!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Sympatico Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5j6c26$qlj$1@news1.sympatico.ca> References: <86lo6if7ek.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.172.216.201 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39248 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. ============================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca> Ottawa, ON