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I've got my new LS-120 drive, went to OfficeMax last night and picked it
up. It's cool... I've tested it under Windows now. I don't have any of
the SuperDisk media yet, but I'll buy that shortly.
Anyway, I need to know something here: How the heck is the LS-120
supposed to work under Linux? I enabled the ide-floppy driver, as it
should have done it for me. Here's the entry from the Linux kernel
Configure's help system:
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY
If you have an IDE floppy drive which uses the ATAPI protocol,
answer Y. ATAPI is a newer protocol used by IDE CDROM/tape/floppy
drives, similar to the SCSI protocol.
The LS-120 and the IDE/ATAPI Iomega ZIP drive are also supported by
this driver. (ATAPI PD-CD/CDR drives are not supported by this
driver; support for PD-CD/CDR drives is available if you answer Y to
"SCSI emulation support", below).
If you say Y here, the FLOPPY drive will be identified along with
other IDE devices, as "hdb" or "hdc", or something similar (check
the boot messages with dmesg).
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be
called ide-floppy.o.
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In any case, the thing is that it plain out doesn't work. I've tried it
both as a module, and built in. The LS-120 isn't detected by my BIOS
(because it's slightly older). Also, I don't have a FloppyMAX yet, so I
can't boot off of it =(. Anyway, the driver should make it appear on hdb,
as it's the second device on the primary chain... but it's not appearing
on any IDE channel (not on hd[bd-h], hd[ac] are taken already).
Can anyone offer help?
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Michael B. Trausch
President of Linux Operations, ADK Computers http://adk.hypermart.net/
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Customer: I'm running Windows '98 Tech: Yes. Customer: My computer isn't
working now. Tech: Yes, you said that.
8:12am up 56 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
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