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I remember using zip disks under Linux ages ago and it was really painful. Marginally faster than a floppy, but 70 times the capacity.

They're just as slow on a Mac (I have a G3 B&W here with a Zip drive), and under Windows: about half the speed of an empeg upload.

Pretty much any software can keep them saturated: 372KBytes/sec for one of the Zip drives I have here. Uses PIO mode-0 only, with 500ns minimum cycle times. Later revisions might be faster (?).

The one in the G3 box might be newer, but I don't have a Linux CD for that box right now.

Cheers