LS 120? What happens now?

[c5rlh 0]

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?

[Ge0ph 0]

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.

[DosFreak 2]

Disable floppy drive in Bios.

[c5rlh 0]

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!

[simonroockley 0]

there is sometimes another setting in the bios which reads report no floppy to win95

this worked for me.

[rbarbier 0]

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.

[Ge0ph 0]

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?

[c5rlh 0]

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

[DosFreak 2]

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.

[c5rlh 0]

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

[Allanv 0]

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: