On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:02:57 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > Hi Glenn,
> You are as stubborn as I am when it comes to solving irritating problems :0 >> Your CDs are Y: and Z: ? >> How many total drives do you have? > I use all 26 drive letters. I park the CDROM's at the end of the > alphabet because that way they are never 'bumped around' as partitions are > added and deleted on my HD's. -- but it doesn't matter what letters I use, > I can always get to them on the URL line, but '\\' always hangs. > Even when I cancel all my 'subst'ed' drives the problem is the same. >> Since it seems that you have more than 1 CD drive loaded. >> Is there a 'readable-by-Dos' CD in both/all of those CD drives? > Yup, and no problems accessing them via URL line. >> What happens if you enter onto the URL line "file:@:*.*" (no quotes)? > This behaves exactly the same as '\\' and 'your computer'. >> Are all of the partitions of the HDD "readable-by-Dos"? > NO! I have a linux partition which Arachne ignores completely. >> Is one of those partitions a W9x FAT32 partition? > All my DOS partitions are FAT32. Arachne herself sits in one and I can > read these partitions no problem using the URL line. Still, I think that > FAT32 might be part of the problem since, as I said earlier, after I have > run W98 and quit back to DOS, everything works just fine. It's as though > W98 does something magical to the CDROMs that remains in effect even after > Windows is gone. Sad to think that running Windows can cure a bug in > Arachne ;-( > Thanks again Glenn, you're a trooper. I'll bet you that's it. Heck, even MS-Dos itself has problems with FAT32 and LFS when you boot directly to Dos and not via W98-shutdown-restart-in-dos-mode. Since I have deleted W98 from this machine, I'll need to go get the other machine from the storage shed to test this theory. (maybe tomorow) <g> -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
