Subject: Re: How does the NetBSD read the Zip drive?
To: Marco A. Ramirez <marami@terraba.fing.ucr.ac.cr>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/14/1997 19:53:59
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:03:21 +0600 
 marami@terraba.fing.ucr.ac.cr (Marco A. Ramirez) wrote:

 > How does my mac when is running the NetBSD read the Zip drive (SCSI port)
 > if it does not have a extension for a unix system like it does in the mac
 > (Iomega Driver)?

ZIP and JAZ drives are simply SCSI disks that are removable.  No special
driver is really necessary.  MacOS probably needs the special driver
to provide eject capability.

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