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- From: "Ian C. Blenke" <iblenke@blenke.com>
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- Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive
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- 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>
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