I have a fairly new machine with an LS-120 in place of a regular floppy disk.
Since it connects to the ATAPI interface (/dev/hdb) rather than the floppy
interface, it's quite obvious that it isn't a *direct* replacement for a
floppy.
I have the kernel built so that the drive is recognized, and I can look at the
partitions on a disk that is formatted and readable under windows with fdisk.
However, any attempt to mount the disk with the vfat filesystem fails. We've
tried /dev/hdb and /dev/hdb[1-4], but the system complains about not finding a
superblock (I am specifying vfat).
Is there some different filesystem type used for these disks? fdisk reported
4 partitions on the disk, which seemed odd.
I've looked for some HOWTO's and docs, but they are thin. Everything that
I've found so far just specifies that the drivers work, but not that there's
something tricky about using them. Maybe there's not and I just have a bad
disk. I tried what I could to gather info, but it's my nephew's machine and
his Winmodem POS didn't allow me to get online and cut-&-paste.
Thanks for any pointers!
-Michael
--
No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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