Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I i have USB drives. not an adapter 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

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant : > 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

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Al Plant
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have 250MB zipdrive and 100MB disks. all works properly over USB ___

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Al Plant
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Al Plant : Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jakub Lach wrote: > In the next episode: > > Modern home video with Betamax and LaserDisc ;) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Omega-Zip-Drives-on-FreeBSD-8-tp5721532p5721678.html > Sent fr

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Jakub Lach
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Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have 250MB zipdrive and 100MB disks. all works properly over USB

[OT] Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 04:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: Zip 100 drive, and also SyQuest SyJet drive, got to where they would > just eject the disk a few seconds after insertion. I hope I'm remembering this correctly (this happened probably ten years ago or so): I had an internal Zip drive which showed this

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 02:58, Mike Jeays wrote: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have a SCSI one and I'm using it to backup some data (can't even remember how old that is, 10 years probably, but never had any glitches). I also have a couple of customers still using two or three such

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant : > Thanks > Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is > throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a > FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive > the Omega disks we found. > Again thanks for headi

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Mike Jeays : I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would make nice museum exh

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mike Jeays : > I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the > click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get > any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would > make nice museum exhibits, but that's

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Felder
Now would be an ideal time to dd the device to an image file and play with that until you get it working. If your hardware or media fails as-is you'll be rather disappointed :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant > wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it c

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant wrote: > > > > I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to > > transfer some archives to new media. > > > > I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Z

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant wrote: > > I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to > transfer some archives to new media. > > I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can > be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly i

Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up