Konrad Mierendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I > > was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. > > AFAIK parallel ZIP-drives are *dead* slow! > > - Konrad Mierendorff
...but fast enough. After configuring my printer port to use EPP, I get 400KB/s under both Windows and Linux, reading and writing. Without EPP I get 80KB/s or so reading, twice that writing---parallel port weren't really meant for fast reading. This might be what Konrad refers to as dead slow, but as you see it's all just a matter of configuration. This is an "old style" (ppa driver) 100MB parallel zip drive on a Pentium Pro 200. If you don't plan to carry your zip drive around, I would recommend the ATAPI version. It doesn't need any special drivers (in Windows 95 and Linux, that is), is more than twice as fast (about 1MB/s for the 100MB version), and cheaper, too. Matthias Hertel
