[LUAU] Help needed with Omega Zip

[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 several years, but I recall Linux support being pretty darn good at 
the end.

Good luck,
-Jeff


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 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 but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS 
> machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont 
> find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought 
> these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
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