[rescue] SCSI Floppy

Paul paul at techcenter3000.com
Sun Sep 28 17:39:15 CDT 2003


Well, it _does_ support a 1.44 meg floppy (LS-120), other than that, and the
extra 20 meg...welll...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Stracchino" <alaric at caerllewys.net>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] SCSI Floppy


> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:52:19AM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > !!!!!
> > HOWEVER: SCSI LS-120's will work as both a standard floppy disk AND a
120 meg
> > format disk with proper media. That's a fairly useful size, if not huge.
> > Plus,. you get that really cool, BZZZ-ZZZT auto eject. :)
> > !!!!!
>
>
> Hmmm .....    cool, but there's really no reason to have both a SCSI
> LS-120 and a SCSI ZIP.  Matter of fact, I can't remember the last time I
> used my existing ZIP drive.  I used to use it for sneakernet between
> home and the office when I only had dial-up at home, but now I have no
> office, and with only one ZIP drive in the house (and that one internal)
> it's not even useful for sneakernet.
>
> I've occasionally considered assembling a really comprehensive rescue
> disk on a ZIP, but I've never gotten around to it.
>
>
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