Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:48:18 -0500 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion on LS-120 devices ? Message-ID: <199802190147.UAA29401@kalypso.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219012119.15814A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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<html> <i>Moved to Hardware from Questions and Hackers...<br> <br> </i>Problems doesn't begin to describe it, pal.<br> <br> Point blank, the drives were not much faster than a floppy. Playing Duke Nukem 3-D off one of them was Frame Rate Hell. (That same game is lovely off a SCSI zip drive, though.) The worst thing about the drive I used was that it would only recognize a standard floppy as a 1.39 MB disk. This prevented the boot disk creator in FreeBSD from working at all. The odd thing is that in contrast, the LS-120 media are actually 120 MB as opposed to the 120 million bytes that most manufacturers use.<br> <br> Even getting this recognized was a nightmare. My recommendation is to avoid these drives. They're a good idea that's just not ready for prime time, and zip drives seem to be working just fine.<br> <br> K.S.<br> <br> <br> <b>At 01:25 AM 2/19/98 +0200, Penisoara Adrian wrote:</b> <dl> <dd>Hi,<br> <br> <dd>I'm going to buy an LS-120 (Laser Servo) device and I would like to know if there are drivers to support this device (at least the 1.44Mb disks if not the 120Mb ones) and if anybody did have troubles with it. </dl></html> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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