Re: LS120 and Amiga
Sebastiaan,
I own a atapi zip100 drive (also uses ide-floppy.o) and i got the same
'error' i figure that this has to do with being a removable (max capacity
was shown in my case) but no disk inside (thus 0).
then again, it did work ok w.o. tweaking.
Yours,
Nico
----- Original Message -----
From: Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
To: <Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk>
Cc: Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@its.tudelft.nl>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: LS120 and Amiga
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I just purchased a LS120 superdrive and it works correct for ordinary
> > > pc formatted floppy's. But when I insert a 880KB Amiga formatted
floppy,
> > > the drive complains:
> > > hda: The drive reports both 737280 and 0 bytes as its capacity
> > >
> > > Is there a way to tweak the drive? I am told that with this drive it
is
> > > possible to read amiga formatted disks on pc.
> >
> > Did you mount it with the correct options?:-
> >
> > mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /media/floppy ??
> >
> > You need the affs module loaded I think. I havent done this for years,
> > but if I remember, the issue was actually with the floppy controller and
> > amiga formatted disks, not the drives. If that doesnt work or you did
> > that then I cannot help :p
> >
> yes, I tried that too. But it goes wrong when I do 'less -f /dev/hda'.
>
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>
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