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Article #809Re: Third floppy under OS/2
From: Mark W. Rice
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:09
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:09
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In article <1992Oct13.152952.27438@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes: |> .... DOS thinks |> there's a D: (unused cable position) and any access |> to D: results in not-ready errors after hanging for a minute. .... |> ... and the |> "phantom" F: which still hangs the system before returning not-ready. |> -- |> David Charlap |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing I believe, when using DOS you could easily use the "assign" or "subst" commands to re-assign the "phantom" drive to be a second occurance of your drive a: or b:. Your phantom drive would still be there, but access to it should be just like you're looking at the one you assigned it to (e.g. a:) (ie. you would either get a file listing of a floppy in diskette a: or an abort, retry, ignore... but no annoying timeout.) -- ----- mark rice mark.rice@ColumbiaSC.ncr.com - My views only
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!stl!bnrgate!nrcnet0!cunews!torn!utcsri!rpi!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!mozart.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM!mrice From: mrice@mozart.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mark W. Rice) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Third floppy under OS/2 Message-ID: <1992Oct15.170920.26511@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> Date: 15 Oct 92 17:09:19 GMT References: <16030@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Oct13.152952.27438@njitgw.njit.edu> Organization: Your Organization Here Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart.columbiasc.ncr.com