From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 18 17:49:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06110 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06097 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@cybercom.net) Received: from atlanta (mfd-dial1-1.cybercom.net [209.21.137.1]) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA29401; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:47:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802190147.UAA29401@kalypso.cybercom.net> X-Sender: ksmm@cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:48:18 -0500 To: Penisoara Adrian From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: Opinion on LS-120 devices ? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved to Hardware from Questions and Hackers...

Problems doesn't begin to describe it, pal.

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.

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.

K.S.


At 01:25 AM 2/19/98 +0200, Penisoara Adrian wrote:
Hi,

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.
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