[lug] LS120 drive for desktop under RH-7.1

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:54:33AM -0700, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
>Yup, and LS-120 should work.  It is called a 'floptical' for some
>reason.  Check out the Hardware Howto at:

Flopticals are a hybrid magnetic media that uses optical tracking.  Data is
stored magnetically, just like on floppies, but there are optical "rails"
that guide the read/write heads.  This allows much more accurate tracking
than you see on normal floppies.

As far as availability, a search on shopper.com for "ls-120" returned a
number of results.  Looked like they were going for around $100 for the
drive.

Sean
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