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from: `Mark D. Overholser`
date: 2005-04-12 12:54:18
subject: Re: extra drive letter with USB/MSD

Dr. Martin Stahl wrote:

> Hello Vic, 
> 
> I looked twice as well into my son's config.sys as into my config.sys
> (eCS 1.2) - nothing about reserve drive letter or something similiar. So
> I am feeling a little bit uneasy - of course I know that you can add
> this line later to your config sys, e.g. if you want to install any
> virtual drive. But that is not our point at the moment ...

IIRC with LVM, you just assign the Drive Letter to the CD-ROM(s) you want..

The Reserve Drive Letter was used with FDISK on NON Warp Server Systems..

> 
> The answer of Sid (which I answered today) was helpful: 
>  
> 
> Thank you Sid, 
> 
> this change of my config.sys did it, either. 
> 
> But you must be careful, adding /FLOPPIES:0, if you have got a CD/DVD
> reader AND a CD/DVD Writer drive AND have got a ready installed RSJ
> CDWriter (as I do). 
> 
> You will have to change the letter of the CD/DVD Writer within the
> settings of RSJ to a letter ONE letter "lower" than before, otherwise
> you will
> NO LONGER find your CD/DVD reader AND CD/DVD Writer drives! 
> <<
That is good to know.


> Kind regards 
> 
> Martin 
> 
> 
> rv

green{at}telusplanet.net schrieb:
> 
>>In , on 04/12/05
>>   at 09:45 AM, "Dr. Martin Stahl"
 said:
>>
>>
>>>In both config.sys I didn't find any entry which semmed to be
>>>RESERVE_DRIVE_LETTER, or any similiar.
>>
>>Thats strange,as eCS frpm ver 1.0 and subsequent versions have all
put thet line in the config.sys. It is a way to give the cd a constant
drive letter,instead of changing as you as\dd partitiomns.
>>
>>Chimo!
>>Vic Green
> 

MarkO


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