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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ATAPI
To: ursa@cris.com, support@FreeBSD.com
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I believe the formal name for the drive you are referring to is LS120
and currently there are no drivers for it available in FreeBSD, I
thought about writing one but am still trying to decide whether there
is enough interest within FreeBSD community for those drives. Emails
like this certainly make the decision easier. I'll probably end up
buying one soon and writing the driver.

But as I said if you bought one now you would not be able to use it in
FreeBSD. All three of them ship with Windows drivers.

Rudy.

---amg <ursa@cris.com> wrote:
>
> Support:
> 
>    I am thinking of adding one of the new combination 1.44 floppy
>  drive / 120 Meg floppy-type cartridge - probably like the ZIP drive
>  cartridges.  I spoke with the factory and told me that:
>    1. the device is ATAPI complient,
>    2. it is an IDE device.
>  Currently I have no IDE devices, all are SCSI.
> 
>    If I got the device:
>      1. What drivers in the kernel would I use?
>      2. What choices would I make in my "LINT" file?
>      3. Is there anything else that you can think of that I would
>         have to change or concern myself with?
>  I am not interested in spending the money if there is little chance
>  that it will work.
> 
>     Thank you for your time.
> 
> 
>                                       ursa@cris.com
> 

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