From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:58:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:57:56 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:42502 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:57:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3BF17B1A.70102@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:57:14 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fdutils. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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