While playing with ide-scsi to get my ide cd writer working, I found out that the ide-atapi zipdrive works with ide-scsi emulation, even when the ide floppy driver is not compiled in the kernel or module.
But when I tested the copying speed, I noticed that the transfer rate is much higher using the ide-scsi emulation than when I use the ide-floppy driver. Maybe it's a problem with my ide chipset or something, but with ide-floppy driver I never managed to get a higher transfer rate than about 10 mb/minute. But with the ide-scsi I get about 45 mb/minute, which is a lot faster! So I use ide-scsi for my zipdrive now. But is it just my configuration that slows the ide-floppy driver to a miserable 10 MB/minute or is this the normal transfer speed??? And if the last: why isn't the ide-scsi emulation reccomended for ide zipdrives??? Wouter
