On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Timothy D. Gray wrote:
> Actually Zenith Data systems made a floppy drive that used 2 inch
> diskettes, and it used very very little power. I believe it used like
> 300ma during a head seek and 100 during a read. They were used in
> minisport laptops -- which are a nice thing too... these things are tiny,
> but unfortunately are 8086 based, (Dang it cant they make a 386 that
> small!) The only drawback is that 5 years ago when I was playing with one
> of these creatures the 2 inch floppy disks were 12 bucks apiece, and now
> are probably more than a zip disk. I dont see a need for a external
> storage device, IrDA to your desktop at home would be fine, and if you
> really really want to xfer data to someone bring an adapter for a PC with
> you. (Or just ftp it via the net!)
>
> > > years. In addition a built in floppy would make it very easy to boot
> > > Linux in the event that the hard disk or file system crashed.
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
AFAIK, Linux won't boot directly off of a Zip Drive. I was thinking of
the floppy mainly because they are cheap and readily available anywhere.
Also, as I stated above, my main concern is rebooting Linux in the event
that the file system or the hard drive decide to crash. That way, I can
still boot the computer to make repairs.
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