Michael George wrote:
>
> 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.
Yup.
> 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.
Yeah, I never got an LS-120 to work "out of the box," don't know what
the deal is with those four partitions. I always just fdisk'ed them all
away, created one new partition, mke2fs, worky-worky.
It's been a while, but I seem to recall that Windows likes the LS-120
either way (with the original four partitions or with a single one
created by fdisk -- though of course not with an ext2 filesystem). YMMV
though, I don't use Windows enough to have test cases in recent memory.
Also don't recall what Windows fdisk does to them -- now I'm wanting to
reboot to Windows and try it. If you're still having trouble mail me
off list and I'll fiddle with it some on my dual-boot box.
--
~~~Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation~~~~
"We've done our best, but you're still hosed." -- W. Stearns, ISTS
Opinions expressed above are my own, and not those of my computer.
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