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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:02:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mirek Prywata <nospam-mpry AT fuw DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
In-Reply-To: <34A91688.27F78BA0@fuw.edu.pl>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971230185955.1711C-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Mirek Prywata wrote:

> But it is searching some linux's paths:
> /usr/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> ......
> So maybe it makes DOS to check all drives???

When DOS sees a pathname like "/usr/lib", it looks for it on the current 
drive.  It does NOT search all drives.  So this is not the cause of the 
problem.

> > The interesting question is why does it access the zip drive but not
> > the floppies?
> 
> Floppy is not connected to IDE interface.

Huh?  On every machine I've seen, floppies *are* connected to the IDE.  
Anyway, DOS doesn't care about the disk interface, it doesn't even know 
how the different disks are connected.

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