Date: 21 Jun 1997 12:56:56 -0000 From: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? Message-ID: <19970621125656.9969.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> In-Reply-To: message from Darren Reed on Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:50:11 %2B1000 (EST)
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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:50:11 +1000 (EST) In some mail from Troy Curtiss, sie said: > > Anybody out there using those LS-120 drives yet? I think they > are IDE-interfaced. Looks like they hold 120MB and can read old > floppies (1.44M) too. If they are going to be supported (or going > to be commercially successful), they look like a better deal than > the Iomega Zip drives. Any thoughts? The LS-120 has two *heads* - one for current floppies and one for the new format. It is a plug-in replacement for floppy drives apparently. It may even work without a new driver (just diff. geometry) ? Sounds like a floptical. Anybody remember those? Still have one somewhere (rummage, rummage). An object lesson in "things not catching on". -mark
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