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From: Mike Holland
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00

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Anthony Rumble wrote:
> 
> Henry Griggs (hgriggs@mpx.com.au) wrote:
> : Any suggestions on getting a Zip drive running with Linux?
> 
> The SCSI Zip drivers will work fine..
> 
> With newer kernel versions.. (like 2.0.27) it has an IOMEGA zip driv er
> driver...

The special driver is only for the parallel-port version which is very
slow, and is mostly only good for laptops.
   The SCSI zip is just another SCSI device to Linux.
The internal version includes a cheap scsi card that linux supports.

A ZIP drive is paradise, compared to tape drives.

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