LS-120 drive

[michaelnex1]

I have a LS-120 drive from Digital Research but I can
not get xp and the old software to work.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Check your BIOS settings and enable LS-120 support.

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[CS]

I have a LS-120 drive from Digital Research but I can
not get xp and the old software to work.

It's my understanding that Win2000 drivers are available for the
LS-120 drive. You might try to do a web search for these drivers and
download them. With luck they may work in XP. If the Win2000 drivers
do not work, it's probably best to move the drive to a system that it
can be used with. ie: Win9X.

Good luck.

 

[Jerry]

My LS-120 works just fine and XP Pro identified it just fine during
installation. Did not need any drivers from the manufacturer.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

It's my understanding that Win2000 drivers are available for the
LS-120 drive. You might try to do a web search for these drivers and
download them. With luck they may work in XP. If the Win2000 drivers
do not work, it's probably best to move the drive to a system that it
can be used with. ie: Win9X.

My LS-120 (from Matsushita) works fine here. Here are the driver
details:

Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Date: 7/1/2001
Driver Version: 5.1.2600.0
Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows XP Publisher

 

[Jim Carlock]

I'm thinking that it's just an IDE drive, like a hard drive. I
do think there might have been a scsi version if my memory
serves me properly.

I think it is the BIOS is what tells the rest of the computer that
it can be a bootable device.

Having never really looked into this, it makes sense that the
BIOS would tag all devices it detects as either bootable or
non-bootable. And if flagged as being a bootable device,
there would be a common interface which reads the boot
sector of the device and thus any device can be used to
start a system up if the appropriate flags are in place, and
if the device can respond to a boot sector inquisition.

--
Jim Carlock
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I have a LS-120 drive from Digital Research but I can
not get xp and the old software to work.