WinXP incompatible with superfloppy?

[Pete]

I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
four years without a single problem (unjustified
reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
detect the a: or the new c:

Any suggestions please.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Pete;
Check the manufacturers website for Windows XP compatibility.
It may be time to replace it.

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"Pete" > wrote in message
...
> I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
> four years without a single problem (unjustified
> reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
> and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
> and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
> reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
> detect the a: or the new c:
>
> Any suggestions please.

[Bob Knowlden]

XP is supposed to support LS-120 drives. There's some information here:

http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=09_01_04

(Apparently some older "1X" LS-120 drives are not supported, but with any
luck, you don't have one of those.)

Is the LS-120 recognized by the system's BIOS?

Is the new hard drive jumpered correctly?

(I'm unsure as to how you set up the new HD. Did you partition and format it
with the XP CD, and install XP directly to it? That might have been the
cleanest approach.)

The LS-120 drive was a technology whose day never really came, but you ought
to be able to use yours a bit longer. (I've never owned one, but I have one
of its ancestors - the original 21 MB "Floptical" drive - in a box in the
basement.)

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

Spam dodger may be in use. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Pete" > wrote in message
...
> I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
> four years without a single problem (unjustified
> reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
> and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
> and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
> reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
> detect the a: or the new c:
>
> Any suggestions please.

[Bob]

The Imation LS-120 is no longer offered. The drivers available from their
site are not XP certified. Using these drivers worked for me for awhile,
but eventually led to crashing of my XP home system.

I have purchase a 128 Mb Quick Drive and packed my LS 120 away.

Might be time for you to consider doing the same?

Bob

[Chris C]

Hi, I've had this device working perfectly since XP came out. I just let XP
detect the device and install it's own drivers.....
Chris
"Bob" > wrote in message
...
> The Imation LS-120 is no longer offered. The drivers available from their
> site are not XP certified. Using these drivers worked for me for awhile,
> but eventually led to crashing of my XP home system.
>
> I have purchase a 128 Mb Quick Drive and packed my LS 120 away.
>
> Might be time for you to consider doing the same?
>
> Bob
>
>

[ALEX MacGILLIVRAY]

Yup. Works perfectly

"Chris C" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I've had this device working perfectly since XP came out. I just let
XP
> detect the device and install it's own drivers.....
> Chris
> "Bob" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The Imation LS-120 is no longer offered. The drivers available from
their
> > site are not XP certified. Using these drivers worked for me for
awhile,
> > but eventually led to crashing of my XP home system.
> >
> > I have purchase a 128 Mb Quick Drive and packed my LS 120 away.
> >
> > Might be time for you to consider doing the same?
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
>
>

[Bill Drake]

The LS-120 support in Windows XP is completely dependent upon
proper BIOS support and detection. If the CMOS is not properly
set to emulate a 1.44MB floppy disk, and the LS-120 is meant to
work as both a boot-floppy-device and a high-capacity-floppy-device,
then WXP will become confused.

Things to check:

1. Ensure you are running the latest flashBIOS update for your
motherboard make and model. It is *very* common for WXP
to require flashBIOS updates before the PnP aspects of the
motherboard BIOS are fully compatible with XP.

2. Ensure you have properly set the CMOS values so the LS-120
is a "boot device" (if you do not have a 1.44MB Floppy drive
in the machine) --or-- so the LS-120 is a "Removable Storage
Device" (if you have a 1.44MB Floppy drive *as well as* the
LS-120 drive).

Once both BIOS and CMOS are current and set correctly, WXP
should autodetect the appropriate devices and add them to the
hardware tree correctly.


Best I can do for now. <tm>


Bill





Bob Knowlden wrote:
> XP is supposed to support LS-120 drives. There's some information
> here:
>
> http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=09_01_04
>
> (Apparently some older "1X" LS-120 drives are not supported, but with
> any luck, you don't have one of those.)
>
> Is the LS-120 recognized by the system's BIOS?
>
> Is the new hard drive jumpered correctly?
>
> (I'm unsure as to how you set up the new HD. Did you partition and
> format it with the XP CD, and install XP directly to it? That might
> have been the cleanest approach.)
>
> The LS-120 drive was a technology whose day never really came, but
> you ought to be able to use yours a bit longer. (I've never owned
> one, but I have one of its ancestors - the original 21 MB "Floptical"
> drive - in a box in the basement.)
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bob Knowlden
>
> Spam dodger may be in use. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
> "Pete" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
>> four years without a single problem (unjustified
>> reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
>> and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
>> and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
>> reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
>> detect the a: or the new c:
>>
>> Any suggestions please.

[AMunro]

A similar problem:

I have an imation superdrive connected to the parallel port of my
6-month old XP machine. When I boot the machine, I usually get false
starts - the WindowsXP window comes up but then the boot process fails
and I get the 'safe mode/last known config' options. The first time,
this happens once. Then twice, then sometimes 3 times. I usually end
up unplugging the SD and rebooting without it to clean the system up.
I have the April 2003 Win2002/XP driver installed...

Can anyone please suggest the best route to follow to solve this one?

MTIA,
Alison

"Bill Drake" > wrote in message >...
> The LS-120 support in Windows XP is completely dependent upon
> proper BIOS support and detection. If the CMOS is not properly
> set to emulate a 1.44MB floppy disk, and the LS-120 is meant to
> work as both a boot-floppy-device and a high-capacity-floppy-device,
> then WXP will become confused.
>
> Things to check:
>
> 1. Ensure you are running the latest flashBIOS update for your
> motherboard make and model. It is *very* common for WXP
> to require flashBIOS updates before the PnP aspects of the
> motherboard BIOS are fully compatible with XP.
>
> 2. Ensure you have properly set the CMOS values so the LS-120
> is a "boot device" (if you do not have a 1.44MB Floppy drive
> in the machine) --or-- so the LS-120 is a "Removable Storage
> Device" (if you have a 1.44MB Floppy drive *as well as* the
> LS-120 drive).
>
> Once both BIOS and CMOS are current and set correctly, WXP
> should autodetect the appropriate devices and add them to the
> hardware tree correctly.
>
>
> Best I can do for now. <tm>
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> Bob Knowlden wrote:
> > XP is supposed to support LS-120 drives. There's some information
> > here:
> >
> > http://www.imation.com/en_US/main.jhtml?Id=09_01_04
> >
> > (Apparently some older "1X" LS-120 drives are not supported, but with
> > any luck, you don't have one of those.)
> >
> > Is the LS-120 recognized by the system's BIOS?
> >
> > Is the new hard drive jumpered correctly?
> >
> > (I'm unsure as to how you set up the new HD. Did you partition and
> > format it with the XP CD, and install XP directly to it? That might
> > have been the cleanest approach.)
> >
> > The LS-120 drive was a technology whose day never really came, but
> > you ought to be able to use yours a bit longer. (I've never owned
> > one, but I have one of its ancestors - the original 21 MB "Floptical"
> > drive - in a box in the basement.)
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Bob Knowlden
> >
> > Spam dodger may be in use. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
> >
> > "Pete" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> I have a 120meg super floppy drive which I have had for
> >> four years without a single problem (unjustified
> >> reputation imo). I have just installed a new copy of XP
> >> and added a new hard drive. In doing so I removed the a:
> >> and connected my old hd to copy stuff over. Now when I
> >> reattach the superfloppy, the boot sequence does not
> >> detect the a: or the new c:
> >>
> >> Any suggestions please.