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Old 12-31-2000, 06:21 AM   #1
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my zip drive is working, but it is about 1/2 speed compared to when i use it in Win95. any way to optimise/accelerate it?
 
Old 01-02-2001, 11:23 PM   #2
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What kind of zip drive do you have?
 
Old 01-03-2001, 02:49 PM   #3
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Iomega Zip 100 parallel port , bought sometime in 97 iirc.
 
Old 01-03-2001, 03:44 PM   #4
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The windows driver has some code that speeds up the drive. The Linux driver may not have some of this code. For a pport zip make sure your parallel port is set to EPP in the BIOS. This will make a pretty big difference sometimes.
 
  


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