Subject: Re: Cumana SCSI II + Iomega Jaz drive
To: Joseph Heenan <esuvf@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/28/1996 11:42:47
Joseph Heenan writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at buying a cumana SCSI II card and a Jaz drive for my
> RPC 700 (currently 8+2Mb, 850Meg HD), and installing RiscBSD onto
> a Jaz cartridge.
>
> I'm just curious as to whether anyone has tried this yet, or if
> it's likely to work?
I can't think of a reason it wouldn't. be warned that the cumana
driver isn't the fastest thing in the world atm.
> [ Has anyone used a Jaz under RiscOS, either, for that matter? ]
>
> (For those who don't know, the Jaz is the big brother of the Zip drive,
> and is a drive that takes interchangeable 1 Gig cartridges - the drive costs
> around 400ukp, and the cartridges 70ukp, roughly)
>
> Thanks!
Cheers Scott
Scott Stevens, Network Services Group, Computer Centre, Imperial College
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