Ahh but the zenith isnt a zip disk, it's a floppy, and follows standard floppy constraints. On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Mark Lenigan wrote: > 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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