Hi all I'm having problems in using regular floppies on my LS-120 drive of a NEC Versa SX, a zip-like drive wich is also capable of reading usual 1.44M floppies.
This is how the drive gets recognised at boot time: # dmesg hdc: LS-120 SLIM3 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive If I try to load ide-floppy as a module, the kernel message is the following: # modprobe ide-floppy Jul 26 22:09:20 tiburzio kernel: hdc: 1440kB, 2880 blocks, 512 sector size Jul 26 22:09:20 tiburzio kernel: hdc: 1440kB, 80/2/18 CHS, 150 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm Jul 26 22:09:21 tiburzio kernel: hdc: unknown partition table Jul 26 22:10:01 tiburzio kernel: hdc: unknown partition table If I try to make a dos filesystem on the floppy, # mkdosfs /dev/hdc mkdosfs 2.5 (07 Jan 2000) mkdosfs: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/hdc' If I try with an ext2 or a tarfile, no problem, it'll do it. I cannot make any boot floppy, though. If I modify 'mkboot' brutally substituting /dev/fd0 with /dev/hdc, then it tries to boot but it outputs an infinite series of 01 01 01 01.... In the end, how do I convince the kernel that what I have in my /dev/hdc is infact a normal floppy disk? Do I have to make a device myself (how??!) Do I have to pass on some boot parameters va LILO or via modprobe? Thanks so much, ciao alberto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- -- alberto. ------------------------------------------------------- -- alberto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
