Re: flash replacing hard disks?

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:37:29 -0400, Keith R. Williams wrote:

> In article <3qfl2eFeico1U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cecchinospam@xxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Keith R. Williams wrote:
<snip>
> "Click of Death" was a Zip drive failure mode, wasn't it? IMO they were
> useless without being unreliable.

I never found much use for zip drives. A few years ago I was really hoping
that zip or ls120 drives would replace floppy drives, as I really, really
hate floppy drives -- too slow, too many errors, etc. But the price on the
media remained high, and the market never took off. I see many new PCs on
the store shelves at Best Buy without a floppy drive, but I always include
a floppy when I build a PC. Have you ever tried to install XP onto a SATA
or SCSI drive without a floppy drive present? How about burning a CDR just
to flash the motherboard BIOS?

I spent quite a bit of time/effort trying to come up with a better floppy
drive for my own use, including trying out both the IDE and SCSI versions
of the LS-120 drive. But their operation was always weird and unreliable.

End of off-topic rant, we now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming....
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