Someone please help me out here

[Doobrey]

Hyperspeed wrote:

As for LS120, now that would be problematic as it must use the floppy
header and not the IDE header as it has to be able to read standard
floppies as well as 120Mb super-floppies. Must be hideously slow but I
do remember Eyetech selling them once so they must be compatible with
Amigas (in which case they'd have to use trackdisk.device wouldn't
they?)

Nope, the LS120 is an internal IDE device.According to some reviews, it's floppy speed is 5x that of a standard floppy drive.
 But from what I remember reading a review in an amiga mag many years ago, you can't use Amiga filesystems with it.

[Doobrey]

Matt_H wrote:

No, not trackdisk.device - that's the device for the internal floppy. If the PowerFlyer does claim to allow a Zip drive to be mounted under that device name, it's got to be a nasty hack and can't be very system friendly or stable.

Yes it's a hack,but I wouldn't call it unstable or unfriendly, certainly no worse than IDEFix etc.
It patches trackdisks open function, and checks the unit number.
 If it's 0-3, it goes back to using the normal trackdisk functions for floppy drives, otherwise for 4-7 (ie unit=4+scsi.device unit)it uses it's own routines to translate trackdisk commands into ATAPI ones for the PowerFlyer and 4xIDE Splitter.

[Doobrey]

Matt_H wrote:
I have complete confidence in Doobrey's hardware knowledge :-).

Then you're as mad as a bag of badgers. There's people around here with a lot more experience and knowledge than me, I'm bound to be wrong sooner or later.

AFAIK, Gav said in another thread a month or so ago that he'd tried that and it didn't work, so I'm all out of ideas for a fix.