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You can use the LS120 (or compatible) ATAPI Floppy with IDEfix '97.
Supported Disk formats are DD (720 kByte), HD (1.4 MByte) and the
LS-120 format (120 MByte).
All types can be used with the Amiga FS or CrossDOS.

To install a LS120 drive, you must start the InstallLS120 program in your
installation directory.


This will automatically install the MountLS120 program in your
S:USER-STARTUP file.

It will mount all connected LS120 floppies as DF4:, DF5:, ...

If you have CrossDOS installed, it will also mount PC equivalents PC4:,
PC5: ...

If you are running IDEfix via the LoadIDE mechanism and IDEfix is
reset-redident, the LS-120 will be mounted at system startup.
You can then boot from the LS-120 drive, if you install a bootblock.

The LS120 CANNOT read or write standard Amiga 880k or 1.6Mb floppies.
But you CAN exchange floppies between normal Amiga drives and the LS12120
with the following trick:

To read/write/format a "LS120-style" floppy, just do a

MountLS120 mfm.device x

where x is your unit number (0=DF0:, 1=DF1:, 2=DF2:, 3=DF3).

After this, a new Floppy will appear (DF4:, DF5:).
This floppy can be used to exchange data with LS120 drives.
ATTENTION: This trick only works with Workbench version 2.1 or higher!


Before you use a disk for the first time, it must be low-level formatted.

Use the FormatLS120 command to do it, e.g.:

FormatLS120 DF4:

or

FormatLS120 PC4:


IMPORTANT:

120 MByte LS120 Floppies are pre formatted and don't need to be formatted!
You can use FormatLS120 to format them, but it will take a very long time.

Low-level formatted disks can be formatted with the AmigaOS format command.


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