Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*


Aloha,

I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media.

I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently.

Any suggestions appreciated.

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