On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, William Lindley wrote:

> Good questions.  some half answers:
> 
> Floppies other than connected to the archaic floppy port are difficult to
> use under Linux... all my systems have LS-120 floppy drives (yes, these
> read and write standard 1.44 floppies) connected to the IDE port; and in
> several years, I've never been able to get "make boot disk" or "format
> floppy" to work under any flavor of Linux.  Discouraging.
I have an LS-120 on my RH box. mkfs /dev/hdb works for me. I haven't 
gotten a boot disk to work right either, but I believe that's because I'm 
using the LS-120 kernel module instead of compiled into the kernel. 
Basically, the module can't get loaded because the module isn't loaded and 
the kernel can't read the device. Someday I plan to work on this issue for 
this box.... in the mean time hitting ctrl+F2 gives another console when 
booting from the cd and allows cli interaction with the file system.


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