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.
>
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