On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Rahim Azizarab wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jack Patton wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 14:46:26 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Jack Patton <jpatton@intserv.com>
> > To: Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com>
> > Cc: Sean Berry <spberry@iastate.edu>, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Jaz/Zip drives (was Re: new 1.2BETA /i386 install floppies and kernels) 
> > 
> > 
> > Is the parallel version supported under NetBSD 1.2BETA? I saw nothing 
> > about it in CHANGES and poked around -current on ftp.netbsd.org and 
> > couldn't find any mention of it. If it is supported, how do I get it to work?
> > 
> > Thanks....
> > 
> > 
> Well, I am finding out that it is not yet, but It is not terribly difficult
> to patch a driver togather from the existing code.  You would open io port
> 378h.  The rest is more or less like the scsi driver.

Perhaps the FreeBSD or Linux zip driver could be integrated into NetBSD. 
Just a thought. I wish there was like a device-driver-porting-FAQ. I can 
code, but device drivers are a little beyond me at the moment. I took a 
stab at porting the FreeBSD Matsushita CD-ROM (matcd) driver without much 
success.