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SubjectRe: Zip Disks.
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Followup to:  <199603170834.BAA11162@chopper.poohsticks.org>
By author: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> >Take a look at kernel 1.3.75, I saw a patch that included ZIP parallel
> >support while I was browsing. Hmmm. Strangely enough, it's located in
> >the SCSI config section.
>
> Not really - the "parallel port" ZIP drives are really a SCSI ZIP drive
> with Iomega's parallel->SCSI adapter in the same box.
>

Can other devices also be attached? Is this device available
standalone, even? I do remember that a parallel port SCSI adapter has
been a Frequently Requested Feature, but that documentation has been
slow in coming.

The zipdrive really seems to be picking up popularity-wise, though.

-hpa
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