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Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive



At 10:15 AM 8/25/95 +0200, you wrote:
>Would we be talking here about a 'Mac' ZIP drive? Cause I may be completely
>wrong, but as I understand it, you would have to buy a different version of
>the ZIP drive for either platform. And I don't intend to buy two. So would
>it be possible then to take the ZIP drive I have hooked up to my Mac at
>home, take it to work and connect it to my Pentium there?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dirk Paul
>
There are two different kinds of Zip drives:  The parallel port version
(which is a bit slower and intended only for PC's) and the SCSI version
which can be used on both PC's and Macs (it includes software for both
platforms but doesn't include a SCSI adapter so that's an added expense for
PC owners).  Personally, I would stick with the SCSI version since it's more
likely to be supported under Linux and is a lot faster.

Yesterday I installed a regular 230MB Bernoulli drive (SCSI) at work on our
100MHz Pentium, and although it works fine with Windows NT and DOS, it does
NOT work with Linux. :-(

One other thing (sorry to be so off-topic):  Has anyone else been having
problems with the ELF version of Linux?  I thought ELF was really great and
stable when I first installed it, but then common programs like
"fromdos/todos" and xbench would just Segmentation Fault for no reason.  I
think it's a bug with either the ELF support in GCC 2.6.3 or the libc 5.0.9
library (or probably compiling libc 5.0.9 UNDER GCC 2.6.3)..  Anyway, I
tried to build libc under GCC 2.7.0 and when I installed it, it was
corrupted, and now I'll have to recopy those libraries from a boot floppy or
I can't even boot :-(  In the meantime I'm very disenchanted with Linux, and
I've decided to make the jump to FreeBSD when the next version is released
in September.  There is a Linux emulation library for FreeBSD which lets you
play Linux DOOM, perhaps with sufficient work one could use Executor on it.
I'll update this list as I find out more...

Jake
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