Re: [TCLUG:14864] power-eject floppy drives for PCs?

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

Check out the sony LS-120 drives, they are IDE based, and have an
automatic eject system :)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>         since you're not supposed to eject a floppy under linux without
> unmounting it; has anyone seen eject-button-less floppy drives for IBM-clone
> PCs?
>         I don't suppose you can use a Mac or SPARC floppy drive (never seen
> one bare, so I don't know...).
> 
> on a side note, we have a teleworker here; who needs to send floppy disks to
> people by mail occasionally. so one of us workers needs to go change floppy
> disks on her local machine here (which she runs by remote control
> [LapLink]). it would be cool to have a cheap floppy drive with remote/power
> eject, so she could eject the floppy when it was ready for us to change it;
> rather than needing a phone call to her house asking "is it done yet"?
> 
> it would be even cooler to have an autoloader and lable printer attached to
> it; but i think that may be a bit excessive. ;)
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
> Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN	
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
> 
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