[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

Gavin Tweedie tweedie at nw.com.au
Fri Jun 12 16:36:03 WST 1998


thanks for the info guys,
Looks like ill be getting myself one tomorrow I think, sound mighty
useful


Gavin

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Gavin Tweedie wrote:
> 
> > internal ones are standard IDE are they not?
> > and work with normal kernel with no modifications??
> 
> The original internal ones were SCSI and came with their own SCSI card.
> The new ones are IDE, so you can choose whether you want to waste an ISA
> slot for a SCSI card or use up one of the 4 possible IDE placements.
> ALso I believe you need to select "SCSI emulation" in a recent linux
> kernel for them to work.
> I haven't used an IDE one yet, only an internal SCSI and an external
> parport one.
> 
>  - Matt
> 



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