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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