RE: LS-120

[Paul Rightley <pright@lanl.gov>]

The hamm installation disks work perfectly with an LS-120.
I wrote a message to debian-user a while ago regarding the installation
- check the archives if you are interested - or email me (assuming I can
remember).

A coworker of mine is using this machine currently and has experineced
no significant troubles using only an LS-120 and no other floppy.

Paul

On 01-Jun-98 Kenneth.Scharf@coulter.com wrote:
> A while ago I tried to boot slackware a compaq deskpro here at work and
> found that it would not boot using the standard boot disk.  The problem, of
> course, is that the machine does NOT have a floppy drive, it uses an LS-120
> drive.  Now I know that this drive is supported under linux as a removable
> IDE disk, usually as /dev/hdX where X is b,c or d (the ls-120 CAN't be set
> as the first disk unless the primary hd is scsi.)  Under dos and windows
> the ls-120 is always a floppy disk, ie: drive A:, no matter what kind of
> diskette is in the drive.  The bios or the OS knows to use the ide
> controler, even though the disk is used as a floppy.  The bios knows how to
> boot this beast.  If you try to boot an LS-120 under Linux lilo will fail
> on the second stage boot because it thinks that it was booted from a
> floppy.
> 
> My question is this.  If I were to replace the floppy disk on my computer
> with an LS-120 (this will free up an interrupt by moving the 'floppy' to
> the IDE interface), can I configure linux to completely support the drive?
> This means being able to read, write, and format both LS-120 and 1.44m
> floppies.  It also means being able to boot a kernel from the ls-120 drive
> (assuming my bios can boot a dos floppy from the ls-120).  I know that the
> stock slackware boot disk was NOT configured for ls-120 support, but even
> if that kernel DID support ls-120 IDE disks, the configuration for LILO
> would not have been correct to boot a kernel from the drive?
> 
> Has anyone been able to boot Linux from an LS-120, and if so what
> configuration of the kernel and lilo was required?
> 
> Thank you.
> 


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