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Re: LS-120 Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guy Warner)
Tue Oct 27 05:53:08 1998
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:52:19 +0000
From: Guy Warner <gcw@dcs.st-and.ac.uk>
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> I have had an LS-120 working for a couple of months now and
> it has worked OK. I use it as a floppy with mtools (there is
> a line in the mtools.conf that seems to work after selecting
> the drive letter I want). However, I have noticed that dos/win
> doesn't see the disk after repeated use under Linux.
>
> Today, mcopy started hanging up and wouldn't quit at all
> (although the file I was trying to copy seemed OK). I have lost one
> LS-120 and this one is brand new (although it, too, may be bad).
>
> I am using RH 5.1 (kernel 2.34) at work and RH 5.0
> at home.
>
> Questions:
>
> Does anyone have any experience using the LS-120 successfully
> under dos and Linux as I have been attempting?
>
> Are there any known LS-120 driver problems?
> (And solutions?)
>
Hi.
I have successfully used an LS-120 under Linux and Win95/98. Whilst I do not
know what caused your problems, I never experienced any problems under Linux.
I found that the 2.0.35 kernel has much better drivers for the LS-120 than the
2.0.34 kernel. I also never used mtools with the LS-120 disks but instead had
the following line in my /etc/fstab (my LS-120 is on hdb)
/dev/hdb /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0
and then mounted the disk. I have a feeling that the vfat formatted LS-120
disks have a funny partition table, and its possible that mtools has done
something stupid to it (although I may be totally wrong on this). One final
thing I found that fixed a lot of problems on my system with programs not
being able to find the floppy disk, was to symbolically link /dev/fd0 to
/dev/hdb
Hope this is of some help.
Guy Warner
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