Re: LS-120 drive

[Ramon Gandia <rfg nook net>]

Reverend wrote:
> 
> Maybe most distributions (or even just the kernel you've been rinning)
> don't support the LS-120 drive completely <shrug>
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 1999, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I mount a 1.44 diskette (ext2) in my LS-120 drive via a mount
> > command:
> >
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc /mnt/floppy
> >
> > I receive an error/warning message:
> >
> > hdc:Dev 16:00 Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000
> > unknown partition table
> >
> > However, I can still read/write to the diskette.
> >
> > This happens if I use RedHat, Debian linux, Turlo Linux.
> >
> > If I use SuSE, I receive no messages. How can I disable these messages in
> > RedHat and why are they there?

I think the complaint is that there is a disklabel/magic number.
This is data written to the preformatted disk that is extraneous
to the ext2 file system.  My guess is the LS-120 disk was not
formatted for Linux but was used out of the box.

I would try this.

Pop a disk on the drive.
prompt# mke2fs -c /dev/hdc

Then try and mount it and see if it complains.  I bet one virtual
beer it works.

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