From: letoured_at_sover.net
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 14:35:17 EDT
James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com> said:
>Thinkpads reserve the A: drive for the _internal_ floppy drive solely. If you
>attach your floppy with any of the external options, it will be assigned the
>B: drive designation _regardless_ of whether or not the internal floppy is
>installed.
If you're speaking of a floppy on the cable, then I think you're seeing
something that W2K is doing. Thinkpads (the 560 and 600E) running OS2
certainly don't care if the floppy is hanging off the cable or are in the bay.
If there is just one it is drive A.
If W2K shows an A and B drive by default, then M$ probably just borrowed
another good idea. OS2 (and for all I know other OS) has always shown both
drives. It makes it easier to drop and drag data to copy floppies when there
is only one drive and you want use the . E.g., drag the data from A icon,
drop on B icon and presto, when its ready to write to drive B, you stick the
nee disk in drive A. The command line is faster, but some like to mouse
around.
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