Re: [ILUG] LS-120 and Linux

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Thu 06 Jul 2000 - 17:07:14 IST


On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:58:09PM +0100, Lars Hecking came forth with:
> Willie J. Bragg writes:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm running Red Hat Linux Ver. 2.2.14-5.0, and cannot get it to recognize me
> > LS-120 Imation Superdisk. Has anyone had the same problem? and if so do
> > you have a solution? Thanks in advance.
>
> Same problem here on RedHat 6.1. The system fails to recognise
> the LS 120 on boot.
>
> One possible explanation: the LS is slave on the secondary IDE.
> [The guy responsible refuses to move the drive to the primary
> channel, says you don't want to do it for performance reasons.]
> As I haven't got a clue about IDE, I cannot comment. But I know
> a guy who runs 6.1, and his LS 120 works. It's salve on the primary
> IDE, though.
Depends on the capabilities of the LS-120. If it's not UDMA, then
it will slow everything on that channel to non-UDMA (AFAIK).

However, if there's nothing on the secondary channel, and it's slave, that
can definitely cause problems. Some machines deal with it, some don't.
If it's the only device, it should be master.

does it appear in the kernel messages? Do you have IDE-Floppy support
turned on?

Does the Bios see it?

L.

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