Sebastiaan, I own a atapi zip100 drive (also uses ide-floppy.o) and i got the same 'error' i figure that this has to do with being a removable (max capacity was shown in my case) but no disk inside (thus 0).
then again, it did work ok w.o. tweaking. Yours, Nico ----- Original Message ----- From: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: Re: LS120 and Amiga > Hello, > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I just purchased a LS120 superdrive and it works correct for ordinary > > > pc formatted floppy's. But when I insert a 880KB Amiga formatted floppy, > > > the drive complains: > > > hda: The drive reports both 737280 and 0 bytes as its capacity > > > > > > Is there a way to tweak the drive? I am told that with this drive it is > > > possible to read amiga formatted disks on pc. > > > > Did you mount it with the correct options?:- > > > > mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /media/floppy ?? > > > > You need the affs module loaded I think. I havent done this for years, > > but if I remember, the issue was actually with the floppy controller and > > amiga formatted disks, not the drives. If that doesnt work or you did > > that then I cannot help :p > > > yes, I tried that too. But it goes wrong when I do 'less -f /dev/hda'. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
