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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: linux with OD?
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 09:14:21 +0100
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> The only problem I see here is with b: zip
>As far as I know, dos machines require that b: is the second floppy.
>HD's start at c: and go up from there. (zip drives are after all, HD's)
>
> I may be wrong on this.
>Does anyone know for sure wheather or not b: can be used
>for the zip drive?


Drive B: cannot be used for a Zip drive (or any other non-floppy device) as
DOS uses A and B for floppy drives.  If drive B does not exist in hardware,
DOS emulates a second floppy drive, producing prompts like 'Insert disk for
drive B: and press any key to continue...'  It may be possible to set up the
Zip drive and use a command like ASSIGN B=E (or whatever), but I fear this
may produce the error message 'Cannot ASSIGN a network drive'.  I may be
possible to write a device driver to reroute requests to drive B: to the
Iomega drivers, but this would probably be a rather inelegant solution, and
would most likely require a lot of programming/DOS knowledge - any offers?

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett