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]>
>
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> --Robert Heinlein
>
>
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