From: mch@squirrel.com (Mark C. Henderson)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 08:14:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives
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On Mar 23, 17:28, JonWienke@aol.com wrote:
} The Syquest EZ drive (130MB twice as fast as the ZIP, a little cheaper
} too--around $200 for an internal drive and cartridge, with additional carts
} around $20, and a 1 GB version available for $500, + $100 / additional
} cartridge) comes in IDE, SCSI, and parallel flavors.  You can get an internal
} IDE drive and DOS doesn't know or care that you can replace the cartridge.
}  You can DoubleSpace the drive, (I have personally done this) so you should
} be able to SecureDrive it too.  It is a full fledged IDE (or SCSI) drive.

The SCSI version of the ZIP drive is a "fully fledged" SCSI drive. I 
use one on a Sun workstation without any special software/drivers, 
and secure the ZIP disks with CFS. It isn't terribly fast, but one 
hardly notices when one is dealing with the overhead of encrypting 
and decrypting the data anyway. 


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