c5rlh 0 Posted April 10, 2000 I have recently installed an LS-120 drive in my W2K machine. Finally deciding it was worth keeping, I removed my normal floppy, but cannot get the LS120 to read as drive A:, only as B: Does anyone out there have any ideas? Share this post Link to post
Ge0ph 0 Posted April 10, 2000 The only thing I can tell you is that the LS120 on my server is drive a:. That computer never had a real floppy drive so that may be why. Share this post Link to post
c5rlh 0 Posted April 11, 2000 I've tried that. I've disabled the floppy controller in the bios, and deleted it from device manager. Then I deleted the LS-120, restarted my machine, and it still found it as drive b! Share this post Link to post
simonroockley 0 Posted April 12, 2000 there is sometimes another setting in the bios which reads report no floppy to win95 this worked for me. Share this post Link to post
rbarbier 0 Posted April 12, 2000 Is there a jumper on this driver for a: or b: Not sure. Never used one of those. Check that. Not sure if that will help but it is worth a try. Share this post Link to post
Ge0ph 0 Posted April 12, 2000 LS120's are a ide device so it is set to either master or slave. I had this happen once a long time ago and if I remember right, the bios of the board I was using at the time would not let me use it as drive a:. So it could be a limitation of your bios? Share this post Link to post
c5rlh 0 Posted April 12, 2000 Well folks. It looks like a bit of a prob with Win2k I've just put my HDD with 98 on and it works like a treat - drive A and everything. Boot with a dos disk, and the same thing. But as soon as 2000 is involved no joy Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted April 12, 2000 My LS120 is reported as A: in W2K. I disabled floppy in bios and enabled report no FDD for W95. My LS120 is Primary Slave. This has worked for me for the past 50+ NT5 reinstalls. Share this post Link to post
c5rlh 0 Posted April 13, 2000 Well, it looks like the only way to get this to work is if I re-install - Everything but this current installation of 2000 sees it as a: Ho hum Share this post Link to post
Allanv 0 Posted April 16, 2000 Try setting the boot options in the bios to ls120/zip/c this worked for me and i disabled floppy drives in the bios but after i done that it gave me an option for floppy 3 weird but on first reboot it showed as a removable drive now it shows as a: Share this post Link to post