Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

[Thomas Mueller]

from Al Plant <noc at hdk5.net>:

> Aloha Woj,

> How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I
> read there is a USB to ide on the market.

I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives.

One problem with SCSI was so many different hardware interfaces in terms of number of holes/pins, meaning incompatibility.

Tom