Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.storage
Titolo: LS-120 Drive needed, need info on them

    I am building a new computer and am looking for an LS-120 capable floppy
drive.  I know there are several on the market now but I am not sure how
they perform.  I would like it if you are an owner of an internal drive to
tell me what you think is a good performer.  Please post or E-mail.   Thank
you.

I have been using a Digital Research internal LS-120 drive for six
months without any problems in my Pentium 120/Windows 95 system with two
hard drives and a CD-ROM drive installed!  I love it!  It has saved me
from having to buy a new, bigger hard drive!  I have filled up a dozen
of the disks so far, though = 1.44 GB!!!

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I think all the IDE models are manufactured by Matshita and re-badged.	I may
be wrong, though.  Imation does not make the internal IDE drives.  They may
make the parallel externals, but they might actually be made by some other
company and re-badged, I don't know.  The externals are supposed to read
LS120 disks faster with the accelerating (hard disk caching) software.	I
haven't bought the accelerating software, so I don't know if it works with my
Dig Res internal.  LS 120s are nice in that the read and write to 1.44 meg
disks faster than an old floppy drive.	But, they are much slower than zips
when reading and writing to LS 120 disks.  I thought it would be cool to make
an LS 120 boot disk for booting to a win95 command prompt, but it is way too
slow.  Another problem is that 1.44 meg disks formatted in the LS 120 drive
are only readable in another LS 120 drive.  I end up throwing away 1.44 disks
that need to be reformatted unless I have time to drag out my old laptop and
do a bunch of re-formatting.
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 >I have been using a Digital Research internal LS-120 drive for six
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It looks to me from system, info that that the drive was made by Mitsubishi or
at least that is the info that I get on control panel | system Info | drives.
I sorta doubt that Imation actually manufactures the drive itself, and maybe
the info I'm reading is only the driver info that I'm reading. Mechanically
the the drives look like they are well built and pretty solid.
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the the drives look like they are well built and pretty solid.
Mitsubishi makes a ton of them -- all of the DR drives that I've gotten
were Mitsubishi drives.  I think there are only a couple of other
companies that actually manufacture the drives.  DR, OR, etc. generally
just market them.

This last part made me decide that an LS-120 drive is not the way to go.  I
constantly share disks in between my computers and my friend's.  I don't
think I can give up my compatibility that readily since floppies are the
only thing my computers have in common if a problem surfaces.  Thanks again
for the info.  I also doubt Red Hat Linux can read them.  Well, they may be
able to....
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for the info.  
Don't be intoo much of a hurry.  That problem has been reported by some,
but the opposite has been reported by others.  I don't know why the
problem only exists in some situations and not others, but I have no
problem formatting a regular floppy in an LS-120 and then reading it in a
standard floppy drive.  Someone earlier posted that was a problem only
with the PP versions, but I don't think that's the case.
Until I'm totally secure with it, I'm keeping my old floppy drives
installed as well, just in case.  Which is just what you'll have to do
anyway if you go with a Zip.
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Paul F. Schikora 
Kelley School of Business        email: 
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Indiana University


T.A.R.
I believe that you are wrong about this.  I just formatted a 1.44 meg disk in
my internal LS-120 drive.  Then I saved a file to this disk.  I ejected the
disk and placed in a standard 3 1/2" drive and retrieved the file. 
Everything worked.  Therefore, at least for me, formatting a 1.44 meg disk in
an internal ls-120 drive does not cause any compatablility problems.
Frank
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do a bunch of re-formatting.
I don't know how your formatting, but i've never had this problem.  I'd say 
it's user error.
Carl
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