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What is the ZIP drive?

April 26, 2017drive Zip

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What is the ZIP drive?

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The Iomega ZIP 100 is an external drive with removable 96MB disks. It is connected either to the parallel port (with an embedded SCSI-2 adapter) or directly to a SCSI-2 adapter. Recently, Iomage has introduced an IDE version that is usually shipped built into PCs (internal). The good news is that you can use all of these models under FreeBSD! A lot of people seem to get confused about how to use their SCSI Iomega ZIP drive under FreeBSD. This short document shows you how to! Really, the Iomega ZIP drive works like a ‘normal’ hard-drive in FreeBSD, the only difference, of course, is that you can change the drive medium (i.e. throw in a new cartridge). Note that this tutorial assumes you’re using a SCSI model of the ZIP drive – if you have the Parallel version, you should go to Nicolas Souchu’s Parallel ZIP Page, which contains the files you will need to get your parallel mode ZIP drive up and running in FreeBSD. If you have the SCSI or IDE versions, you don’t need to install anything ex