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Received: from miles.bayanet.com (Miles.Bayanet.Com [163.125.35.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA20497 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:09:28 -0700 Received: (from iblenke@localhost) by miles.bayanet.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) id SAA30807; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:11:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:11:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ian C. Blenke" <iblenke@blenke.com> X-Sender: iblenke@miles.bayanet.com To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive In-Reply-To: <m0sm2TX-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950825180114.28345E-100000@miles.bayanet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote: > [excellent description of Zip drives deleted] > Jake> Yesterday I installed a regular 230MB Bernoulli drive (SCSI) > Jake> at work on our 100MHz Pentium, and although it works fine > Jake> with Windows NT and DOS, it does NOT work with Linux. :-( > > Sorry to hear that. I had hoped the days of SCSI incompatibility were > behind us (everyone in the computer industry), at least for disk > drives. It does seem strange. The Zip drive works fine with Linux, it is little more than another SCSI device (id 5 or 6). By default, however, it only includes a DOS formatted floppy as the "Utility" disk. If you send away for the Mac disk, however, my bet is it will work quite well. (This experience from installing a minimal Slackware 2.3.x installation onto a single ext2 formatted Zip floppy for a buddy. And, yes, it is really darn neat ;) One the downside, as a Zip drive can only be configured as SCSI device 5 or 6, you cannot make one bootable (without a LILO boot floppy or somesuch redirection). > Jake> One other thing (sorry to be so off-topic): Has anyone else > Jake> been having problems with the ELF version of Linux? Once someone puts out a *good* ELF distribution, most of us will jump in a give it a try. I'm content at the moment just to get my job done ;) > Jake> I'll have to recopy those libraries from a boot floppy or I > Jake> can't even boot :-( In the meantime I'm very disenchanted > Jake> with Linux, and I've decided to make the jump to FreeBSD > Jake> when the next version is released in September. There is a > Jake> Linux emulation library for FreeBSD which lets you play > Jake> Linux DOOM, perhaps with sufficient work one could use > Jake> Executor on it. I'll update this list as I find out more... iBCS/2 should enable you to run it, methinks. > People who want to discuss the merits of Linux vs. FreeBSD are welcome > to contact Jake directly, but are encouraged to avoid starting a > discussion on this list. Remember, we have many NEXTSTEP and > DOS/Windows users who wouldn't be particularly interested in the > discussion. I don't mind people piggybacking questions to the > Executor community (within reason: no "do you need a green card?" type > questions) on top of useful letters as long as the resulting > discussion doesn't occur on the list. Agreed. Every platform serves a particular purpose, IMHO. > That being said, it is worth pointing out that Steven Wallace has > already made enough modifications to the Linux emulation library that > FreeBSD will soon be able to run Executor/Linux with no known FreeBSD > specific incompatibilities. I don't know whether that will still be > the case when we get an SVGAlib version out for Linux, though. Excellent! Keep up the great work! - Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>