Re: LS120 and Apple IIgs

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Michael Wicklund <tbogard1@MYhome.com> wrote:

>Has anyone ever tried hooking up a SCSI LS120 drive to an Apple IIgs (w/
>SCSI card of course)?

It'll work but unlike the Zip drive is not completely plug
and play.  You need the freely available Floptical SCSI
driver.  That's because the LS120 has access times
like the floptical.  Apple's generic SCSI hard disk driver
expects fast access times.  The Zip drive is fast enough.
But not the floptical or the LS120.  The floptical driver
is simply a version of Apple's generic SCSI driver with
an added access time timeout delay.

You can find the floptical driver at the ground ftp server:

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/

Good luck!

This is what I've read, by the way.  You may want to
try Apple's standard driver first.  It might just work.