From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 18 18:28:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13923 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [193.230.201.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13564 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA01088; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:06:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:06:55 +0200 (EET) From: Penisoara Adrian To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion on LS-120 devices ? In-Reply-To: <199802190147.UAA29401@kalypso.cybercom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > Moved to Hardware from Questions and Hackers...
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> Problems doesn't begin to describe it, pal.
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> 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.
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) >
> 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.
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. >
> K.S.
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