It's my guess that you have your Ls-120 on the Secondary Slave channel. In
that case hdd is correct.
Just a Newbie taking a punt.
Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 11:24 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] 6.1 install problem
> I have an LS-120 and have installed RedHat 6.0 and more recently Mandrake
> 7.0-2. Both work fine, neither created the boot disk. The LS-120 sets up
> as a hard drive /dev/hdd on mine. (two hard drives are a and b, the CD
> shows up as c). I can write to the LS-120 fine if I address it as a hard
> drive. My plan, when I find more time to mess with it, is to try to make
> the LS-120 a bootable hard drive to Linux. Hoping that will work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 1:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 6.1 install problem
>
>
> I have the messages back to september, and don't see any resolution
> to the problem, I don't seem to be able to mount the drive, the
> light doesn't even light.
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Kevin....the Ls-120 problem was discussed at great length
> > several months ago on either this list or the expert list. I
> > believe the bottom line was that an HD floppy with the boot info
> > on it would boot fine in an LS-120 drive, but there was no
> > practical way to make a boot floppy using an Ls-120.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Kevin Sexton wrote:
> > >
> > > I have had 6.1 installed(from download), and working, and
> > > now am trying to reinstall from powerpack CD's.
> > > my CD-Rom is bootable, but when the install gets to making a
> > > boot disk, it stops, without accessing the floppy
> > > drive(actually a: is ls-120 with floppy disk, is bootable,
> > > fully functional). If I skip making the floppy I get an
> > > error after choosing boot options, no matter how I try to
> > > set it up (MBR or first boot partition, linux or dos as
> > > default)
> > >
> > > Ok I rearranged partitions and got it to install before
> > > sending this message, without making a boot disk, but linux
> > > still doesn't seem to recognize the LS-120. I will try to
> > > get more info, if replies don't help, but I'm out of time
> > > right now.
>
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