> 	I'm innerested in a ZIP drive, for various reasons. It would
> appear they come in 3 flavours, from the ads (but I've not yet really
> investigated much, since a year or two ago they weren't useful for
> netbsd...). (1) SCSI, (2) Serial (or parallel, whatever), (3) "Internal",
> which I assume meens IDE? or somesuch.
> 
> 	I don't have a SCSI card, and am working offen a VLB board which
> means its hard to come by a cheap SCSI. I don't want to blow $100+CDN for
> a SCSI card to buy a $100 ZIP drive. So I'm left with (2) and (3)...

NetBSD-current works with SCSI, IDE, and ATAPI Zip drives.

SCSI ZIPs have been supported for a Long Time.

IDE ZIPs have been supported (at least to some degree, as far as I can
tell) for a Long Time.  However, I don't know how many IDE ZIPs were
actually sold, and it's almost certain that if you're considering
buying one now it'll be ATAPI.

ATAPI ZIPs are supported by NetBSD-current, and there are a set of
patches against 1.3 which will add support for them to 1.3.  (I don't
recall where those patches are, though.)


I don't know what "Internal" means.



cgd