Re: LS120 drive
I have a LS-120 (Superdisc) on a compac that I've used with
linux. don't like it.. If convenient, or you're buying, I
would get a zip drive.
Sebastiaan [sebastia@ch.twi.tudelft.nl] wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, [iso-8859-2] Szatori Péter wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > At home I use a LS-120 drive and yes if you buy a knewer one, it's
> > much faster reading ordinary floppys.
> > In the kernel you have to compile the ide floppy support and it should
> > work.
> > I don't know how it works with the amiga floppies, what fs do they use.
>
> Thanks for your reply. The problem is not the fs, but the amount of data
> stored on it. DD floppys are 880KB formatted, while on PC this is only
> 720KB. The problem is not the drive, but the floppy controller, PC's can
> not read further than 720KB.
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastiaan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:sebastia@ch.twi.tudelft.nl]
> > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:32 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: LS120 drive
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am planning to copy several hundreds (thousands?) of old Amiga floppys
> > to my computer and burn a cd from it. My Amiga drives are old and
> > relatively slow and an ordinary PC floppy controller can not read Amiga
> > floppys, so I was thinking about buying a LS120 drive for this job.
> >
> > How well does this drive work under Linux? I have heard that it is
> > possible to read Amiga floppys with this drive, and that the drive is much
> > faster. Is this true?
> >
> > Or does anyone have an alternative on how to read Amiga floppys on PC's?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Sebastiaan
> >
> >
> > --
> > $ man clone
> >
> > BUGS
> > Main feature not yet implemented...
> >
>
>
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