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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support?
To: troyc@sandy.merix.com (Troy Curtiss)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:50:11 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <troyc-9705182355.AA00013840@sandy> from "Troy Curtiss" at Jun 18, 97 04:55:20 pm
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In some mail from Troy Curtiss, sie said:
> 
> Anybody out there using those LS-120 drives yet?  I think they
> are IDE-interfaced.  Looks like they hold 120MB and can read old
> floppies (1.44M) too.  If they are going to be supported (or going
> to be commercially successful), they look like a better deal than
> the Iomega Zip drives.  Any thoughts?

The LS-120 has two *heads* - one for current floppies and one for the
new format.  It is a plug-in replacement for floppy drives apparently.
It may even work without a new driver (just diff. geometry) ?