Re: [seul-edu] External ZIP drives

[Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com>]

External parallel zip drives work fine with Linux. This link should 
give you enough info to get working.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html

My only complaint is that my experience with parallel zip drives is
that the reliability is somewhat shaky. If possible, I like to put a
network card into every machine - even if it's nominally going to be a
standalone computer. The cards are cheap, and sooner or later I'm
always going to drop to a network for updates. Debian+apt+apt-proxy is
a nice combo.

- alan

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:07:14AM -0500, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Hello,
>     Does anybody have experience using external ZIP drives (parallel
> interface) with Linux? I know the internal IDE types should be fine, but I
> was wondering if anybody has successfully used the parallel version. The one
> at my house work fine under Win95, but I never could get it to work with RH
> 7.0.
>     I was thinking that the external type might be an easy way to move
> 100meg or less from (non-networked) machine to machine at school, especially
> now that OpenOffice.org is available for both Win and Linux. Not all the
> machines have CDs, so it seems like zip might be the way to go.
> 
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> 

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