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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI LS-120 driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:52:14 +1030."
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:23:54 +0900
From: Satoh Junichi <junichi@astec.co.jp>
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> I have been looking at this, in what passes for free time.  I haven't 
> mailed you back simply because I haven't had any real success yet.  
> Much of this has been due to attempting to work with an ATAPI Zip which 
> has been performing oddly.
> 
> One significant defect in your driver is that you do not support 
> slices.  This makes it impossible to use the driver for things like Zip 
> disks which come partitioned like harddisks.

I don't know features of the ATAPI Zip drive.
Does it work as a harddisk?

The LS-120 drive has no such functions.
Slice codes are not needed.

> Could you perhaps look into adding slice support?
No.
But, I'll try to support it, if I get a ATAPI Zip drive.

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Junichi