From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 28 04:04:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18069 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17988 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 04:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12497; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:04:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:04:34 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199801281204.NAA12497@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3M LS-120 support ? Cc: olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: olli@incogni.to MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > > Is FreeBSD support the 3M LS-120 drive ? > > -stable and -current have support for ATAPI removables, yes. > > > see it at: > > > > http://www.imation.com/dsp/ls120/ > > > > rw for regular 1.44M and 120M optical at an hard drive speed! IDE > > street price ~250$ US > > They're cheaper, and slower, than that. In fact, they're _damned_ slow, only about five times faster than a regular floppy. And they're not really optical; data is recorded onto a magnetic surface. They only use optical servo tracks to achieve more precise head positioning, like those old 20 Mb flopticals (anyone remembers those beasts?). Regards Oliver Fromme -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)