In the July issue of PC Upgrade, they mention installing a HiVal LS120
a:drive (an IDE unit) in their featured system. They specifically mention in
at least two places that they disabled the onboard floppy controller because
they were not using a conventional 3.5" floppy. If I remember correctly, the
unit discussed also does not have a normal 3.5" floppy, and if your Ortech
LS120 is also an IDE unit, then disabling the floppy controller (either
onboard by jumper, in CMOS set-up, or both) should force windows not to see
the a: drive, much like we don't see the b drive around much anymore.

I have to mention that I also haven't worked with these units yet, and I'm
going on what I've read only.

I would also check the boot order in CMOS set-up to make sure that the LS120
is included as a boot device. My Set-up offers only LS120 and then C (only
one option for the LS120). I would make sure that you set up something
similar on your system.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Roxanne Pierce
> Sent: July 11, 1998 2:21 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ORTech LS-120 behaviour
>
>
> Yes, I've had 3.5" 1.44kb disks in it when attempting to access it as an A
> drive.  It simply won't -- it hangs the system. Whether the media
> inserted is a
> 1.44kb disk or an LS-120 disk, only the D drive designation works
> in Win95. This
> means that the A drive designation is useless, and potentially dangerous.