Makes sense. The drives must be set up as something and scsi is well
supported.
A quick look through windows system propeties shows 'Iomega parallel port
zip interface' under SCSI controlers. Definatly scsi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] zip drive
> Seems all Zips are technically SCSI. The parallel version uses a SCSI
> emulation, probably the same case with USB.
>
> -Carlton
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive
>
> I cant tell you about the usb drives, but the parallel zips are scsi. I
dont
> know how but both bindows and linux see them as scsi.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM
> Subject: [newbie] zip drive
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and
> everything
> > worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive
> installed.
> > During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the
> folder
> > in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lock on it. I went
> into
> > gtkzip, and it shows the zip drive as having a scsi connection. Even
> though
> > it found it as a usb drive during install.
> >
> > When the computer boots up, it loads the usb stuff fine, with no errors.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
>
