QNX2 - Zip drives

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Hi everone (anyone),

Does anyone have any experience with using Zip drives with QNX2? I have
managed to get the Parallel Port version to work OK but now wish to try the
internal (ATAPI) drive. Can anyone assist before I start burying myself in
this…??

Thanks in advance,

Russ Bilbey.

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Russ Bilbey <russ@bilbey.com> wrote:

Hi everone (anyone),

Does anyone have any experience with using Zip drives with QNX2? I have
managed to get the Parallel Port version to work OK but now wish to try the
internal (ATAPI) drive. Can anyone assist before I start burying myself in
this…??

I’d bet against success. But you might be lucky. Do you have disk.ata?
It might have a hope – if not, I’d download it from:
ftp.qnx.com:/usr/free2/disk/drivers/disk.ata

-David

QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com

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Good try David, but there’s no chance. The
Zip drive is an ATAPI drive. A completely
different interface than EIDE hard drives,
more like SCSI on top of EIDE. The disk.ata
driver has no ATAPI support.


Previously, David Gibbs wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:

I’d bet against success. But you might be lucky. Do you have disk.ata?
It might have a hope – if not, I’d download it from:
ftp.qnx.com:/usr/free2/disk/drivers/disk.ata

–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com