From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 08:30:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA03405 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 08:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03395 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 08:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@kalypso.cybercom.net) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA18807 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:29:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:29:48 -0500 (EST) From: The Classiest Man Alive To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI LS-120 driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 23 Dec 1997, HAMADA Naoki wrote: : The LS-120 drive never support slices, because it is only a floppy : drive. So supporting slices on the LS-120 drive makes no sense nether : you use MS Windows et al. nor FreeBSD. Is this ATAPI limitation? Do the parallel/ATAPI zip drives support slices? I would have thought the LS-120 would only behave like a floppy with floppies and enable more functionality on the 120 MB media (e.g., various non-FAT filesystems). All the SCSI removable models I've used (jaz, zip, SyQuest) seem to support slices. Removability even works with a little care. I hope that FreeBSD can support as much of that as possible on the LS-120 drives (since I hope to get one someday. But since I haven't written a lick of code, I'm in no position to make demands. :-) ) K.S. PS -- How do you like the drive's performance and reliability?