> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> 
> > An IDE ZIP would be good... SCSI performance is pretty dire on all cards
> > at the moment.
> 
> Nah ! ZIP drives are very slow  (I get about 100K/sec from an ATAPI one)

Not in general. I have a SCSI ZIP drive connected to my slow falcon and it 
achieves about 1000KB/s (limited by the zip drive). The parallelport versions 
should make up to 600Kb/s (regarding to an article which was printed in the 
german GAG news) under RiscOS.
I can't imagine why the IDE versions should not bring the same performance, at 
least as the parallelport version.

> and are not a high enough capacity.

Thats an argument ;)

Ciao, Peter.