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Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA14294 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:16:03 -0700 Received: from linuxbox by covina.lightside.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0sm1QI-0009XZC; Fri, 25 Aug 95 09:16 PDT Message-Id: <m0sm1QI-0009XZC@covina.lightside.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 09:16 PDT X-Sender: jehamby@lightside.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: executor@nacm.com From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------