First post, by aigeek
I got this internal SuperDisk Drive for ebay months ago,
I bid it for granted that it's LS-120,
and it can be a bootable device for any PIII platform with confidence
but...It's come with a SCSI dock and it's named SLS-120
The problem is that no any existing LS-120 driver or software can recognize it,
due to the standard LS-120 is an IDE , parallel or USB adapter interface.
Of course, I successfully connected and recognized it on the SCSI host card,
but it's can not read and write 1.44M or 120M disk on DOS / WIN98 / WINXP with OS support.
I press CTRL-A on POST come to SCSI host card setup and set the removable media as fix disk
then I can run FDISK on DOS and recognize 1.44M disk as an HDD with 1MB capacity
it's can be create partition, active and format /s , then the FDHD can get booting!
BUT when I insert a standard 120M superdisk,
it's just can not be recognized in host card setup and get error when try to low-level format.
I load ASPI4DOS.SYS and ASPIDISK.SYS on DOS and get it's successfully assigned with C:,
when I try to format c: /s I get a 31.98MB capacity message and 0-track error,
the 120M disk is OK , I format it with another USB LS-120 link to WinXP.
Maybe the driver is bad for 120M DISK MODE?
Maybe I have to try to disassemble it from SCSI dock with a special screw-driver late,
confirm whether it's good or broken via standard IDE connection.
Then I should still try to boot disk on DOS via SCSI because
SCSI is good for XT and AT in my retropc collection and change OS-DISK on air.
I have setup the solution with SCSI-MO on IIGS and OLDPC( XT/AT/386/486/SS7)
now I'd like try any removable mass storage device not only on BIOS-Ready platform.
Anyone played around with it anymore?