On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:23:56 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric,
>Bonus question: Are there other types of A: drives which cause troubles >for FORMAT? For example when you boot from FAT16 USB stick, the drive >is reported as A:, but you do not want to format your own boot drive >anyway - The QUESTION is, when you use DOS USB DRIVERS to access an USB >stick, will it be reported as harddisk (and be treated okay by SYS and >FORMAT) or can it happen that it gets reported as A: even in that case? My USB stick cannot boot, someone else can help you for this? I'll test again if I can get other USB floppy (my boss have another one, not IBM) >How about LS120 and ZIP drives? Sure. I have to install my LS120, removed for a year. >PS: WHICH floppy drive type is reported by 0.91s' for your USB floppy? Drive A: >Does LBAcache support the drive? (depends on whether it has disk change >detection... I guess I have to write a prothesis if drives without BIOS >disk change detection get popular...) Since the X31 notebook have NTFS in hard disk, I just boot a FreeDOS floppy to test, will try LBACACHE later. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
