Topic: IDE floppy

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Doing some nosing round the system that is going to have SME installed in May I noticed that the fdd was actually connected via IDE, which was strange.  The drive also stated it was a Compaq LS-120 drive, and on further investigation it seems that Compaq provided these on older machines, and they take large volume disks (if still available) as well as 1.44 disks.

This probably accounts for some of the problems I had on Friday, especially when trying to create boot disks under Linux.  Will SME work with this drive, and if it will not, will it be ignored?

Tia
Andrew.

[Kelvin]

Hi Andrew,

LS-120s (or also known as Superdrives) are really not that uncommon. However, as you have discovered, they are connected via IDE and as such will most likely appear to Linux via hdx where x depends on whether it is primary master, primary slave, secondary master or secondary slave (ie. hda, hdb, hdc or hdd).

Kelvin

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

It appeared as HDA, I am not sure what the primary hard drive showed up as.  I am wondering whether this caused a problem in SME, as I had major problems running it on that machine, (i.e, dns service quitting after around half an hour, and Samba not presenting itself all the time).  I certainly could not make the boot disk from the sme panel, I am just wondering if SME refers to the hard drive somewhere, and on that machine the location of the hdd is different?  I can probably move the floppy to secondary master if needs be, but certainly not this month.

Andrew.

[Jeroen]

To be save I'd remove that drive and install just a plain old diskdrive.

jeroen