Ls-120

[swift240]

Hi every one, been  along long time but any way.....................
I am getting my AMiga1200 out of its box and will use it yet again...............
But I went to a table top sale (boot sale) and got myself 2 fully working LS-120 floppy drive units. Now I belive they can be put inside the Amiga 1200 by of course taking out the original 880K floppy drive unit. QUESTIONS:-

1:- Has an yone used one of these?
2:- If so good yes/no?
3:- Will I need drivers for Devs draw? (I think there are but not sure)
4:- I have 2 so 1 will be put into my PC tower other inside my Amiga 1200 for data transfere.
5:- If I do the above then will the data tranfere be with no problems or will there be some sort of incompatability issue?

6:- there is no 6

TIA,

Mike.

[Zac67]

We've been using a few for a couple of years as higher-speed HD drives and reading damaged disks. They performed quite well with HD floppies - never tried a 120 MB disk though.

They should work right away with an appropriate mountlist entry or HDToolbox partitioning. Low level read/write will be limited to PC format, there's no way they could read HD or DD Amiga disks. As filesystem you can use FAT for PC data exchange or any Amiga filesystem.

[Nostalgiac]

got one of those as well, can't add much to Zac67: keep in mind they are IDE devices (never heard about an SCSI version but heck I might be wrong) so you need a free IDE connection. And obviously limited to PC formatted floppies only. Same here, never got hold of any true 120mb disks either.

Tom UK

[swift240]

SO ok, here is what I want to do with iy...............
1 LS-120 in my Amiga 1200, 1 LS-120 in my PC tower reason if I cant get my Amiga on the Internet then download data from Aminet from PC onto  LS-120 using a LS-120 data disk then onto my Amiga LS-120 drive unit.  What I need to know is can I use the same LS-120 data disk on both machines using both LS-120 units? OR will it be ONLY a 1.44 floppy disk for both?  TIA,  

Mike.

[swift240]

Well I used the LS-120 floppy drive, on a spare IDE on my IDE`97 4 way IDE board and it was seen by the Amiga as DF7 and I formated a 1.44 disk and then a LS-120 floppy disk with no problems what so ever. Rebooted my Amiga re-inserted both floppy disks (one at a time of course) LOL to find they both kept the data I put on and no problems in any way. All I goto do now is use the other LS-120 drive on my PC to see how it all goes.
More later........................

Mike.