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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Iomega ZIP drive
Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:14:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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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. ;-)

(And _never_ attempt to read this wannabe-standard...  you'll wonder
why they even work sometimes at all afterwards.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)