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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On 13 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Thankfully, the LS-120/LS-240 hardware is actually sane. > > Do you mean there is a SCSI version available or merely the ATAPI > implementation is within the spec? > I believe both, but the important thing is that it's an ATAPI/SCSI implementation, including a soft eject button, and not that horrible legacy floppy crap. > >>Unfortunately the zip drive probably kept it from displacing legacy >>floppies, at least in the short term. > > Unfortunately at the time I was interested in a removeable storage > replacement technology, there was only SCSI Zip available -- no SCSI > LS-120 drives. I might have not been the only one, so they got what they > asked for. > That wasn't what kept it from becoming standard, though. The marketing of Zip was a bit too good, but Zip couldn't have displaced the legacy floppy, since it wasn't compatible. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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