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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Ronny Jordalen <Ronny.Jordalen@econ.uib.no>
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Subject: Re: Ls 120 booting problems
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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Ronny Jordalen wrote:

> Hi, and help(!) :)
> 
> I just recently bought a new computer, and amongst other things I went for
> the ls-120 drive. However, it seems the silly thing won't boot the FreeBSD
> floppy!
> 
> I'm using an Asus TX 97E main board, with bios support for booting from
> ls120/zip-drives.

LS-120 != IOMega Zip

I'm sure you could stick a totally cut down version of FreeBSD on a SCSI
Zip attached to a SCSI controller with a BIOS on it and boot it.  LS120's
aren't supported by FreeBSD at current however.  If someone wanted to
write a driver, the hooks in the wd code already exist to do so, you just
have to follow the example of the CDROM code.

> As I upgraded from a laptop computer, I have no spare floppy drives lying
> about, so basically I'm stuck now with Windows. ,-)

Don't tell me they didn't give you a regular old 3.5" floppy disk drive?
Who is this -- they are going on my blacklist! :-)

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