Eduardo, I should have also mentioned that mounting the ls120 drive
with a standard 1.44Mb floppy instead of a 120Mb ls120 disk means
you must do the mount on the entire disk; ie.: your mount line
would be:
/dev/hdd /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
best
rickf
Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."
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On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote:
> Rick:
> I thank you very much for your input.
> I will try to mount a ext2 formatted floppy, exactly as you do.
> Can you check is your LS 120 of the same version?. I mean
> an ATAPI device or an ide-floppy are these different things?
> Eduardo
>
> On 14 Dec 2000, at 11:11, Rick Forrister wrote:
>
> >
> > Eduardo, just reinserted my ls120 to my laptop, checked &
> > tested. Assuming that you have a mount point "/mnt/ls120"
> > the line:
> >
> > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/ls120 auto noauto,owner 0 0
> >
> > does work for me. Note that I also checked to ensure that I had
> > a valid hdd1 partition & that it had been formatted with mke2fs.
> >
> > best
> > rickf
> >
> > Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."
> > --Robert Heinlein
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote:
> >
> > > Rick:
> > > Thanks for your advice.
> > > I tried it but it did not work.
> > > At boot time the bios recognize the drive as:
> > > ATAPI Device LS-120 ver 5 00 UHD Floppy
> > > Any other ideas?.
> > > Eduardo
> > >
> > > On 14 Dec 2000, at 8:31, Rick Forrister wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > > I am installing RedHat 6.2 in a machine with a LS-120 UHD instead
> > > > > of the common floppy. Can someone help me with the fstab file?.
> > > > > Also does the kernel support this device or do I need some
> > > > > particular module which one and where can it be find?
> > > > > In the machine there is also a Yamaha DS-XG multimedia card that
> > > > > is unsupported under 6.2. Can someone help me with that one.
> > > > > Everything works flawlessly under m$windows.
> > > > > Please reply not only to the list but to my particular e-mail, as I
> > > > > usually do not receive all them.
> > > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > > Eduardo
> > > >
> > > > Eduardo, I've got LS120 drives on most of my systems, so have dealt
> > > > with most of the problems. Mounting the drives for use is not a problem
> > > > at all. Just add a line similar to the following:
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
> > > >
> > > > where you replace hdd1 with the apprpriate drive designation and
> > > > partition number. Commonly, like zip disks, they seem to come with
> > > > partition 4 under MS Windows/whatever; I normally use fdisk to
> > > > create partition 1, type 83 (Linux native), and then run mke2fs to
> > > > format the partition.
> > > >
> > > > I've had no success as yet using the LS120 drives as a boot device.
> > > >
> > > > best
> > > > rickf
> > > >
> > > > Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."
> > > > --Robert Heinlein
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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> Desarrollo Electronico
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