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to: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
from: LYNN NASH
date: 1998-04-05 00:07:00
subject: Ls-120 superdisk

JP>Yes, you can replace a traditional 1.4MB drive A:  with an LS-120.
JP>But because of the way that drive letters are assigned by OS/2,
JP>"real" floppy drives take precedence over LS-120 drives.  So if you
JP>have a 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive in your machine, as I have, it will
JP>become drive A:  and your LS-120 will become drive B:.
Yuck, is this again somehow fixable with an upgraded BIOS or are you
referring to a drive letter flip in OS/2 once it is up and going?  If
not have you thought about what you will do when it comes time to
install or reinstall the OS and you need a 3.5 boot floppy. Sounds like
we are back to cable pulling time or living without the 5.25.
JP>Of course, if one only has 1.4MB floppy drives, then the point is
JP>moot.  Just take them out and substitute the LS-120.  It can read and
JP>write 1.4MB floppy discs just fine (I haven't tested whether or not
JP>it can format them yet, but preliminary experiments indicate that
JP>this works, too.).
JP>And yes, it really *does* hold 120MB:
JP>        [C:\]free b:
JP>         Volume in drive B is TESTFATBOOT    Serial number is FEED:FACE
JP>            125,958,144 bytes total disk space
JP>                223,232 bytes used
JP>            125,734,912 bytes free
JP>
JP>        [C:\]
JP>( For the astute:  I altered the volume serial number by hand, when I
JP>was poking around on my new LS-120 with the Graham Utilities for OS/2
JP>to satiate my curiosity as to what its BPB looked like.  )
 Hungry at the time?
--Lynn
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