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- From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
- Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive
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- 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
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- Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com
- Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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