Amacom Flip Disk

[wtho...@socrates.berkeley.edu]

In article <35868E...@eng.cam.ac.uk>,
Steve Young <s...@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> The new Amacom 6.2Gb Flip Disk looks to be a neat way to extend the
> disk capacity of my laptop. Anybody know if there is a driver for

Their site is at

http://www.amacom-tech.com/

though I don't see anything about linux there, it says there is UNIX
compatibility, but they don't seem to have a driver downloads page anymore :(

Anyone out there have drivers for this?

-Ken

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[Grant Guenther]

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:06:51 GMT, wtho...@socrates.berkeley.edu
<wtho...@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <35868E...@eng.cam.ac.uk>,
> Steve Young <s...@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> The new Amacom 6.2Gb Flip Disk looks to be a neat way to extend the
>> disk capacity of my laptop. Anybody know if there is a driver for
>
>Their site is at
>
>http://www.amacom-tech.com/
>
>though I don't see anything about linux there, it says there is UNIX
>compatibility, but they don't seem to have a driver downloads page anymore :(
>
>Anyone out there have drivers for this?

I would expect the PCMCIA versions to work with the standard Linux drivers.

As for the parallel port version, I have no specfic information about the
FlipDisk product, but the rest of Amacom's line are OEM products based
on adapters which _are_ supported to one extent or another.

Products that use their ezk* drivers are based on KingByte adapters,
the ezs* devices use Shuttle EPAT chips and the pss* devices use the
Shuttle EPST parallel port SCSI adapter.

All of these devices are discussed on the linux parallel port devices
homepage at

http://www.torque.net/parport/

Although there does not appear to be any specific information available
about the FlipDisk products, there is some circumstantial evidence to
support a theory that they also use the Shuttle EPAT adapter.

If anybody has one and can help to identify it, I'd be interested
in the answers ...

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