Re: I have a question, yes I've asked this before.

["A. J. Clark" <adam kinetix dynip com>]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Rob Napier wrote:

> > This is true for zip drives, but it isn't true for Ditto parallel port
> > drives. They require a new version of ftape that didn't make it into
> > 2.2.1.
> Oops. I meant to say zip works with 2.2.1. You still can't use both at
> the same time. You need the IEEE-1284 patches for that:

Huh?  Now this doesn't make sense - what are you referring to when you say
"you still can't use both at the same time"?  I'm assuming you mean that
the ftape devices won't share the parallel port with other devices?

Parallel zips work fine in shared mode with other parallel devices.

-Adam