Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:04:34 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de Subject: Re: 3M LS-120 support ? Message-ID: <199801281204.NAA12497@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > > Is FreeBSD support the 3M LS-120 drive ? > > -stable and -current have support for ATAPI removables, yes. > > > see it at: > > > > http://www.imation.com/dsp/ls120/ > > > > rw for regular 1.44M and 120M optical at an hard drive speed! IDE > > street price ~250$ US > > They're cheaper, and slower, than that. In fact, they're _damned_ slow, only about five times faster than a regular floppy. And they're not really optical; data is recorded onto a magnetic surface. They only use optical servo tracks to achieve more precise head positioning, like those old 20 Mb flopticals (anyone remembers those beasts?). Regards Oliver Fromme -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
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