Rick Glazier wrote:

> Originally From: Harvey Rose <[log in to unmask]>
> > What is the best way to install this floppy drive? I have 3 IDE connections
> > available. Two on the mother board and 1 on the sound card. Since the LS120
> > is IDE Atapi, should I install it has a master drive or leave it as CS.
> > Should the hardrive be a slave? Can one install a regular floppy drive also
> > and have one has A and the other as B?
>
> Less than Win95b requires drivers, and has some limitations.
> My instructions warn about this "slow" device affecting a hard
> drive on the same cable.  I never tried it as a master.
> "Full" BIOS support required if you want to boot from the LS-120.
> You can have a real floppy and an LS-120. My LS-120 is "B" when
> installed this way. (The system requires "A" for the real floppy.)
> I have a "bad feeling" about anything other than a "plain" ide cd rom
> on your sound card port.             Good luck,  Rick
>
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I also have installed an LS 120 as a "B" floppy successfully by using the
secondary ide port's slave, The master is a 13 Gbyte Western Digital hard disk,
The primary ide port has a 2nd 13 Gbyte Western Digital hard disk as the master,
and a Philips CD-RW as the slave. (for backups and system transfers).  I am
running a parallel port ZIP 100, a std floppy as the "A" floppy, and a generic
CD-ROM on the sound card's ide port.  I also am running a cable modem on 1 NIC
card, a peer-to-peer 100Mbit LAN on a 2nd NIC card, not to mention that I am
using 1 USB port for a 722C H-P printer (via a USB-parallel connector cable) and
a scanner (H-P's USB model, I forget the model).

Busy isn't it, I cringe with the thought of ANY change, it has taken 3 months to
get it all working the way I want.

I am running a 450mhz Pentium II on an ASUS P2 mobo with 256 M of memory in a
full tower case with 3 extra fans (1 is a std 3.5" unit, the other is really a
pair of 1" fans in a front panel mount) This computer runs at about 85-90 deg.
measured on the CPU heat sink in my ac home office area (shared by 3 other
Pentium tower units).

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