protection on IoMega ZIP drives

JonWienke at aol.com JonWienke at aol.com
Sat Mar 23 14:48:28 PST 1996


In a message dated 96-03-23 05:19:55 EST, it was written for God and everyone
to see:

>> Has anyone tried SFS?  It should work on the zip drive, though I've not 
>> tried it (yet)...
>
>If I recall some recent threads on alt.security.pgp (or sci.crypt?), 
>SFS doesn't work on ZIP drives (since ZIPs use the parallel port...).
>
>[Or do ZIPs use Scuzzies and the people who had problems were just 
>too lame to figure out that they had to load the driver before SFS?]

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.

Jonathan Wienke






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