Steve Wingate
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:14:40 -0800
I have an LS-120 but its in my FreeBSD 3.3 box, not Linux. I have it set as Master on Secondary controller, per the manufacturer's instructions. FreeBSD supports and recognizes the device as /dev/wfd0. I have no idea if Linux supports it but you might try that. At 10:04 PM 12/2/1999 -0900, you wrote: >On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> How do I do it? The vanilla incantation fails, as it tries to do a format >> operation, which doesn't work. If I try giving it /dev/hdb instead, that >> hangs until I interrupt it. > >I believe you set the LS120 to be the boot device in your >BIOS. Then you have to make the LS-120 whatever device >it is in the IDE chain. If it is connected as slave on >the primary interface, it will be hdb. Then you write >LILO to it, since you want it to boot. There may be >other issues, but the main one is to set it to be the >boot device in the BIOS. If your BIOS has no support >for LS-120 as a boot disk, then you have to get a >circuit card that will tell the bios that you have >an LS-120 boot device. Those generally do not come >with the LS-120. Else, you are out of luck and you >treat the LS-120 as merely a removable hard drive device. > >-- >Ramon Gandia ============= Sysadmin ============== Nook Net >http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] >285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 >P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 >Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 ==== Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525 >