![]() ![]() I can hear the drive attempting to format the disk for several minutes, but in the end it gives a failure message, saying the disk cannot be formatted. When I get the "disk not formatted, would you like to format?" prompt, I have tried answering yes and letting it format the disk. It is having the same issues where the drive is recognized in Windows and is assigned a drive letter (A:), but it won't read disks. This motherboard does not have any special BIOS options relating to LS120s, so I don't think it supports any special handling of them. Win2k control panel sees the drive and calls it a High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drive The BIOS POST screen identifies the drive as an LS-120 VER5 00-(PM) UHD Floppy It is now connected to an Intel L440GX+ server board with Win2k SP4 (fresh install). I have since switched the drive jumper to Master. It was probably the Win98SE box, maybe after exiting to DOS 7.1. ![]() I do not remember what OS this was under. The photo below shows what happens if I put a known working 1.44MB floppy in conventional drive A:, do a "dir" listing, then try to do the same thing in the LS120 drive B:įilename read error - same disk - regdrive-A LS120-B.jpg File size 61.92 KiB Views 1472 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception They do see the drive and assign it a drive letter (A: or B:), but any attempt to read a floppy disk results in the "Disk not formatted, would you like to format it?" prompt. They also have not been able to read any disks from the drive in their respective versions of Windows. Both seem to try to boot from it but neither has succeeded. The cable I used in the WinXP machine was the same cable that normally plugs into my DVD drive so I'm sure that cable is good.īoth of those motherboards have a BIOS option to boot from LS120. On both of those the drive jumper was set to CS as shown above, and the LS120 was the only drive connected on it's cable. Previously I tried it on a VIA MVP3 based super-7 board (Tyan S1590) running Win98SE, then my modern AMD790X Phenom2 system running WinXP. I've tried it on 3 different motherboards and OSes. Implies MDO should be left open, which is how it is on my drive. Does anybody know what that means? This page (applicability unknown): I notice one pair of pins is labeled "MDO". ![]() Filename jumper.jpg File size 71.61 KiB Views 1472 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception ![]()
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