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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (712)	5/20/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>> What is the LS120?<< An LS120 drive looks exactly like a floppy drive. It also reads floppy discs. The difference is it also has its own 120MB media. It is relatively new technology. It has been on the market for about a year but is now starting to get a foothold. Most motherboards now have BIOS support for LS120 drives. It is currently being hyped as "superdisc". Theoretically you could use one in lieu of a floppy. I have three of the early versions and had some trouble in Win95. The drives are IDE and Win95 would not see them as A drives. This caused some serious slow downs in Windows explorer when it did a global search of all drives. ( actually this is only true on my dual boot machine and I never figured out why. An NT machine and a Win 95 machine do not have this problem.) The above is why I recommend still using a standard floppy in addition to the LS120. If someone else is building the machine and they can set it as an A drive you can skip the floppy if you want to save 30 bucks. I just went through a major system crash so backup is high on my priority list at the moment.( a registry problem that Spots just mentioned. I ended up having to reformat and start from scratch. I have a lot backed up but it will take me a month to get back where I was.) 120MB does not do much for a 6.5 GB harddrive but it beets the h*** out of 1.4 MB. I would prefer a complete backup system but do not know the best way to go on that yet. My home computers are not mission critical so I take risks. Zeuspaul