Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:06:55 +0200 (EET) From: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion on LS-120 devices ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219035617.1069B-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> In-Reply-To: <199802190147.UAA29401@kalypso.cybercom.net>
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Hi, On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > <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 Oh, I wouldn't expect at all to play games directly from the disk... > 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 Where did you get this number, in the Win95's Explorer or DOS/FreeBSD ? In the former case I believe it's normal, even the real 1.44Mb's have 1.39Mb free reported under Win95, but in the latter... > 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> Well, 120 * 1024 * 1024 bytes are much butter than 120 * 1000 * 1000 bytes anyway... About the FBSD bootloader, did you have problems with both the 1.44Mb and 120Mb medias or just with the 120Mb media ? (In the 120Mb case it might be from the non-standard format) > <br> > Even getting this recognized was a nightmare. My recommendation is Exactly what problems did you encounter here and what OSes ? This is very important for me. > 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> Well, don't be so sure, did you hear about those rumours about "Click of Death" regarding Iomega's drives ? I haven't read them but the stories are (still ?) available at www.cnet.com. > <br> > K.S.<br> Thank you very much. Ady (@warpnet.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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