[ale] LINUX & SuperDisk

[Eric Z. Ayers]

I have one in my machine.  I have Red Hat 5.2 installed

 - you need to install a kernel with ide-floppy support if you want to
    use it. I don't remember if the stock redhat 5.2 supported that or 
    not. (I think it did)
 - you cannot boot a floppy boot/rootdisk combo (the ones supplied
    with RH 5.2)

Mine is the slave on the second IDE controller, so I access it through 
/dev/hdd 

I made a symlink from /dev/floppy to /dev/hdd

I had to make a simple edit /etc/mtools.conf to be able to use it with 
the mtools stuff:

#drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive
drive a: file="/dev/hdd" exclusive

-Eric.

jim writes:
 > Does anyone out there have any experience with Imation SuperDisk on
 > LINUX? This is the drive that handles regular floppies and also 120MB
 > floppies. I'm trying to figure out if there are any compatibility
 > issues.