LS-120 support for Novaxis SCSI

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

imagem de Retrofan

15-08-2010, 10:23

Hi all, I would like to tell you guys that I managed to get a LS-120 work on a Novaxis SCSI interface. I can read/write 720kb/1.44mb and 120MB disks. (only with partition tables) Until now, this was not possible since there is no SCSI version of this drive. I used an ACARD AEC-7720U IDE-SCSI bridge to connect the LS-120 to the Novaxis. You can use the LS-120 just like the ZIP-drive which I also have. The ZIP-drive is much faster than the LS-120 (the speed is the same as on the IDE-interface), but it could be handy to read/write 720kb and 1.44MB floppies on it when your diskdrive of the MSX is dead. This is not possible with the ZIP-drive since this one only accept ZIP-disks.

Now I need someone who would like to help me, because I need two things:
- formatting 720kb and 1.44mb floppies on Novaxis (without partition tables) preferrable in NFDISK or stand-alone tool
- assign a driveletter for those floppies if they are detected as floppies (otherwise you have to use MAP)

If possible adding FAT16 support to get the full capacity would be nice... (maybe Egor Voznessenski could do this?) or someone else ofcourse...

So, have this accomplished with LS-120, it should be possible to use other IDE devices on the Novaxis as well...

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