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Article #3916Re: Hard Drive
From: HC Johnson
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:10
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:10
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In article <89091023103918@masnet.uucp>, calvin.bruner@canremote.uucp (CALVIN BRUNER) writes: > I have a peculiar question....does anyone know if you can label a hard > drive segment as Drive "B", or is that reserved for floppys? I have a > cartridge which only wants to access drives A or B, The scheme use for all io is to vector thru hdv_rw, which get you to the disk driver. If it wanted to think of B as hard disk it could. But all the ones out there assume a and b are floppies, and start their tables at c: I reverse engineered the BMS driver to add features I needed. One allow me to MOUNT and drive partition on any drive letter. (why? try to move word perfect from F to D without reentering all the absolute paths it uses). Anyway, this would just as happily mount f: as b: . Bottom line. Yes you can have hard disk as b:, but you have to work at it. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!lzaz!hcj From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard Drive Summary: its easy, if you have sources for the hard disk driver Message-ID: <776@lzaz.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Sep 89 16:10:37 GMT References: <89091023103918@masnet.uucp> Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 21