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Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives
On Mar 23, 17:28, [email protected] wrote:
} The Syquest EZ drive (130MB twice as fast as the ZIP, a little cheaper
} too--around $200 for an internal drive and cartridge, with additional carts
} around $20, and a 1 GB version available for $500, + $100 / additional
} cartridge) comes in IDE, SCSI, and parallel flavors. You can get an internal
} IDE drive and DOS doesn't know or care that you can replace the cartridge.
} You can DoubleSpace the drive, (I have personally done this) so you should
} be able to SecureDrive it too. It is a full fledged IDE (or SCSI) drive.
The SCSI version of the ZIP drive is a "fully fledged" SCSI drive. I
use one on a Sun workstation without any special software/drivers,
and secure the ZIP disks with CFS. It isn't terribly fast, but one
hardly notices when one is dealing with the overhead of encrypting
and decrypting the data anyway.
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