LS 120? What happens now?
This is a discussion about LS 120? What happens now? in the Customization Tweaking category; I have recently installed an LS-120 drive in my W2K machine. Finally deciding it was worth keeping, I removed my normal floppy, but cannot get the LS120 to read as drive A:, only as B: Does anyone out there have any ideas?.
I have recently installed an LS-120 drive in my W2K machine.
Finally deciding it was worth keeping, I removed my normal floppy, but cannot get the LS120 to read as drive A:, only as B:
Does anyone out there have any ideas?
Finally deciding it was worth keeping, I removed my normal floppy, but cannot get the LS120 to read as drive A:, only as B:
Does anyone out there have any ideas?
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The only thing I can tell you is that the LS120 on my server is drive a:. That computer never had a real floppy drive so that may be why.
Disable floppy drive in Bios.
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I've tried that.
I've disabled the floppy controller in the bios, and deleted it from device manager.
Then I deleted the LS-120, restarted my machine, and it still found it as drive b!
I've disabled the floppy controller in the bios, and deleted it from device manager.
Then I deleted the LS-120, restarted my machine, and it still found it as drive b!
there is sometimes another setting in the bios which reads report no floppy to win95
this worked for me.
this worked for me.
Is there a jumper on this driver for a: or b: Not sure. Never used one of those. Check that. Not sure if that will help but it is worth a try.
LS120's are a ide device so it is set to either master or slave. I had this happen once a long time ago and if I remember right, the bios of the board I was using at the time would not let me use it as drive a:. So it could be a limitation of your bios?
OP
Well folks.
It looks like a bit of a prob with Win2k
I've just put my HDD with 98 on and it works like a treat - drive A and everything.
Boot with a dos disk, and the same thing.
But as soon as 2000 is involved no joy
It looks like a bit of a prob with Win2k
I've just put my HDD with 98 on and it works like a treat - drive A and everything.
Boot with a dos disk, and the same thing.
But as soon as 2000 is involved no joy
My LS120 is reported as A: in W2K. I disabled floppy in bios and enabled report no FDD for W95. My LS120 is Primary Slave. This has worked for me for the past 50+ NT5 reinstalls.
OP
Well, it looks like the only way to get this to work is if I re-install - Everything but this current installation of 2000 sees it as a:
Ho hum
Ho hum
Try setting the boot options in the bios to
ls120/zip/c
this worked for me and i disabled floppy drives in the bios but after i done that it gave me an option for floppy 3
weird but on first reboot it showed as a removable drive now it shows as a:
ls120/zip/c
this worked for me and i disabled floppy drives in the bios but after i done that it gave me an option for floppy 3
weird but on first reboot it showed as a removable drive now it shows as a:
