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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: bootneck on April 09, 2006, 05:22:00 PM

Title: LS 120 Problem
Post by: bootneck on April 09, 2006, 05:22:00 PM

i have installed a ls120 when a place a disk in it comes up DF4 unreadable and i cannot format or anything it also comes up with cd2 uninitialised??

I wanted to make this df0 and do away with my old floppy?

any idea???

a1200 in base unit
m1230xa
32 mb ram
mediator
voodoo 3000
network card
soundblaster 128
cd rewriter

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: motorollin on April 09, 2006, 05:33:08 PM

You can't use it to replace the floppy because it's an IDE device. Also, you can't boot from the LS-120.

If a CD2 uninitialised icon appears when you put in a disk, then you have a mountlist called CD2 in your DEVS: drawer for CD2 which is pointing to the SCSI device and unit that the LS-120 is on.

What happens when you try to format the disk in DF4:?

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moto

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: ChaosLord on April 09, 2006, 07:15:06 PM

My experience has been that my LS-120 can only read and write MS-DOS disks.

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: adonay on April 09, 2006, 07:22:31 PM

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ChaosLord wrote:
My experience has been that my LS-120 can only read and write MS-DOS disks.

same here but diddent try it out too good

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: zipper on April 09, 2006, 08:44:12 PM

Idefix has a mount file for LS-120

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: bootneck on April 09, 2006, 09:56:40 PM

its ide express i am using i have taken off the cd2 from devs, and rebooted and reloaded the ls120 software on ide but still cannot read / format the drive??

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: Paul on April 10, 2006, 12:30:52 AM

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its ide express i am using i have taken off the cd2 from devs, and rebooted and reloaded the ls120 software on ide but still cannot read / format the drive??

Several years ago I had an ls120 set up in my 4000 which was able to read both Amiga and MS-DOS floppies, as well as Amiga or DOS formatted 120MB disks.

I don't have that hardware anymore, but I think I stil have the mount lists.

But I think mine was wired to the internal IDE in the 4000. GOing to an IDEexpress might be part of the problem.

My current mountlists for my AmigaOne are different from the old one, so they probably won't work on your 12000. But if you want to try my older mountlists from the 4000 I could send them to you.

Paul

Title: Re: LS 120 Problem
Post by: Boot_WB on April 10, 2006, 08:29:37 AM

If you go into the IDEfix drawer (wherever you installed it) there is a drawer called LS120 (or mount LS120 - something like that anyway).  IIRC there is a mounting tool in there for setting up LS120 correctly.

btw - LS120 will not read Amiga formatted disks - there are several threads here and elsewhere about it.  It WILL read 720k and 1.44mb MSdos disks, but will not read amiga formatted 880k 1.6mb disks.  

You might also want to drag the formatLS120 tool onto your Amidock (also in the IDEFIX/ls120 drawer).