If you have replaced your normal floppy drive with an LS120 and disabled floppy
in BIOS it will hang if you try to access it - I found out the hard way. I have
posted a reply to someone else about setting up LS120's - When it gets posted
it may help you
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> my machine: GAteway Solo9300 PIII Notebook. HDD 12gb,first master, DVD-ROM
> first slave, FDD/LS120 second master, internal PCI modem 56kbps (winmodem?)
>
> I have trouble with:
>
> 2.Problem with LS120 "SuperDrive":
> installation recognized drive as "floppy" device and "LS120" device.
> When I try access 1,44m floppy (or 120mb disk), has no any drive activity,
> but console LED is lighted for 2-3min.(drive LED is OFF). When I try access
> /mnt directory, same thing occur, and Xserver sometimes is frozen.
> When I insert floppy into drive, I hear some noise (driver mechanics
> activity).
> When logging out from Linux, system frozen when try to unmount /dev/fd0,.
> Error message say about I/O error.So, Linux session don't close properly. On
> next start, system forced to perform long make-up to restore linux.
>
> Please, help to fix these problems.
>
> Rgds. Boulat
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