On Thu, 9 May 1996, Ian MacColl wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 1996, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 May 1996, Brad Salai wrote:
> > 
> > > The latest Mac Week has an ad for a Teac internal 600 Mb tape drive for $59.00
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know if netbsd supports this one?
> > 
> > If it's a SCSI or SCSI-2 drive, it should work.  At worst, you might have 
> > to work out a scsi-quirk or three!  :)
> 
> Does this apply to all SCSI devices? EG, I'm trying to decide whether
> to buy a ZIP drive (which does work) or an EZ drive (which is faster
> but I'm not sure of netbsd support, tho' other Syquests are supported).
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ian
>

Some of the drives with "variable geometry" have some problems with NetBSD.  For the
time being, don't think about using a Zip drive for your root device.  It'll give
you a headache for all the reinstalls that you'll have to do.  A Zip drive would be
helpful for extra storage though.  Using a Zip as a secondary drive shouldn't be too
much of a problem.  

Jon
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