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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:16:51 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: LS-120 Drives

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On Mar. 6, Steve Carter replied to me:

> I still have LS-120 drives on both my W98 and Warp 4 machines.
> They are noisy but faster than floppies.
>
> I, too, wanted to make boot disks out of 120 MB LS-120s, but never
> succeeded. The LS-120 is an IDE device which is installed by the
> BIOS as the logical A: or B: floppy. But there is no BIOS mechanism
> to recognize the 120MB capacity (at least on my older MBs).
> Newer Warp IDE drivers recognize the LS-120 just fine, but the
> problem is getting them loaded from an LS-120 boot disk.
> I don't know how to do it.

Then I sure won't figure it out, either.

> A two-disk boot mechanism might work. Somewhat like the IBM boot
> floppies, except switching to LS-120 media for the second disk.
> Perhaps Steven has some insight into this part of the boot process.
> It's always been somewhat of a mystery to me.

Ah well, so much for that idea. If someone could realize the purported potential of the Jack Troughton
article from Extended Attributes May '01 issue (which Kim & / or Steven told me is probably not
feasible), that _could be_ the most impressive Warp-related demo ever. In the Top 5, anyway. Short of
that, I guess BOOTABLE -- for a bootable Maintenance CD -- it will have to be.

Jordan

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