From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:45:13 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives
Message-ID: <199603242233.OAA23171@ix9.ix.netcom.com>
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At 12:55 PM 3/24/96 -0800, Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com> wrote:
>The SCSI Zip drives do act as normal SCSI drives (though they have a limited
>number of SCSI ids available. (5 & 6 if I remember correctly.) Later drives
>may have this changed.)
>The problems i am encountering are due to the _parellel_ version of the Zip
>drive.  (I bought it because I needed to be able to visit customer sites and
>not all of them have SCSI.)  The drivers fake a scsi port.  (Some laptops
>use a similar driver to attach hard drives to non-scsi systems.)

Hmmm - I've got the Syquest parallel-port drive.  Syquest offers
SCSI and IDE flavors of their drive - and the parallel port
version emulates IDE (don't know if it's EIDE or vanilla IDE...)

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