[techtalk] LS120 problems

[Bill Thompson]

Hi,

I can't get my LS120 to mount under Linux. No problems when running
DOS(4DOS). I have set the floppy options in my BIOS to off. 'dmesg'
shows

  'hdd: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI Floppy drive'

I have the following line in fstab. Where /dev/ls120 is a link to
/dev/hdd.

/dev/ls120      /mnt/ls120      msdos    user,noauto,exec,dev,suid,rw 0
0

I get the following trying to mount my LS120.

[root at darkside /etc]# mount /dev/hdd -t msdos /mnt/ls120
hdd: The drive reports both 1474560 and 0 bytes as its capacity
mount: /dev/hdd: can't read superblock

It doesn't change by much if I use a 1.4Mb floppy or LS120 disk. Or
replacing msdos with ext2 and using a ext2-formatted 1.4Mb floppy
or LS120 disk. 

Help,

Bill
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