[LUAU] Help needed with Omega Zip

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

Re: [LUAU] Help needed with Omega Zip

2012-06-24 Thread Jeff Mings
Hi Al, I know you're the state's biggest FreeBSD fan, but if I were you, I'd try booting from a good linux distro. You can boot an Ubuntu 12.04 CD, or there's always the good old Knoppix - they're still keeping things up-to-date. I haven't tried anything with a zip drive variant for

Re: [LUAU] Help needed with Omega Zip

2012-06-24 Thread J.K.Roby
Don't know if it can help. I have an OEM CD that on the face list PC ver 2.8,Mac ver.2.8 and Linux ver 1.0 yours for the asking;supply mail ad. On 06/24/2012 02:02 PM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to