From: Ray Bayles (canyonlands_at_theriver.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 07:56:07 EST
I have a client who owns a "new" A21 purchased October 1. She was
persuaded to buy the IBM LS-120 dual floppy drive that will accept and
write to either the regular 1.44 floppy drive or the LS-120 disks that
hold 120 megabytes. It fits in the bay, exchanging with the CD-ROM
drive.
The darn thing wont boot system disks, PCDoctor, any of the downloaded
utility updates that require a boot, or any other bootable disks. She
brought it to me for a fix. I can't make it boot either. I have tried
a new BIOS and every combination in the SetUp. EZServe wont deal with
it because it was purchased separately from the computer.
Does anybody know if this LS-120 drive is supposed to boot? The guy I
talked to on the IBM 800 number couldn't find anything on it. The
people at CDW, Insight, Computers4sure, Outpost and PCConnection all
report their literature says it is supposed to boot. The
www.pc.ibm.com web site only discusses the USB floppy drives and 1.44
floppy drives as bootable.
The drive is made by Matshushita, Model LKM-FC-33-9, the IBM FRU is
27L3450. It looks like a duck, but I don't think it is what it is
quacked up to be.
Any ideas before we send it back?
Ray Bayles
--The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
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