Re: SCSI LS-120?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart replied:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Makes me wonder...since imation lost the LS-120/Zip 100 war, I haven't
>> seen many LS-120's at all--or even their (very special) media.  Aren't
>> there about 100 Zip drives for every LS-120?  Wouldn't Zip be a much
>> safer and more available solution?
>> 
>> Since you can still buy Zip 100 media at Costco, they seem much
>> closer to mainline.
>
>For a removeable media drive there's a lot of choices that would be
>better than the LS-120 and I think I have most of those but none of
>them also take floppy disks.
>I don't doubt that the ramfast would work with the LS-120 drive with 
>120mb media. I'm wondering though if without a special driver if if it 
>would want to use a unique format and regularly formatted 1.44mb floppy 
>disks would be unreadable to it.

Ah, now that has some appeal!  I remember the LS-120's ability to
switch to standard 1.44MB mode.  I'd be interested, too, in what
could be done with that...

-michael

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