Re: [Sheflug] LS120 Drives

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, ross wrote:

> does anyone use an LS120 drive?

Nope.

> i am intending to fit an LS 120 if it's compatable with linux other wise i'll
> stick with a cheepo floppy drive. i presume it's a staight replacement!

AFAIK they are just ATAPI disk drives, so should be supported perfectly
under Linux.

In fact:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY
  If you have an IDE floppy drive which uses the ATAPI protocol,
  answer Y. ATAPI is a newer protocol used by IDE CDROM/tape/floppy
  drives, similar to the SCSI protocol.

  The LS-120 and the IDE/ATAPI Iomega ZIP drive are also supported by
  this driver. For information about jumper settings and the question
  of when a ZIP drive uses a partition table, see
  http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html .
  (ATAPI PD-CD/CDR drives are not supported by this driver; support
  for PD-CD/CDR drives is available if you answer Y to
  "SCSI emulation support", below).

  If you say Y here, the FLOPPY drive will be identified along with
  other IDE devices, as "hdb" or "hdc", or something similar (check
  the boot messages with dmesg).

Lifted straight from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help

Our kid has an ATAPI Zip, which works fine. (Well, as fine as you can
expect from those crappy units)


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