"Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob George wrote:
> >[...] "ATTENTION: Drive C: and D: are now
> >only C:. Aieee!"
>
> The user should be aware on what drive things are. What if the drive gets
> bad or is removed? Wouldn't it be good to know what files/directories are
> were then?
That just underscores the point: The DRIVE has NOTHING to do with the LETTER
assigned to the device by DOS. I've had Windows 9x occasionally re-sequence
things -- and it can certainly be done under DOS as well. I'd hate to think
it, but I'm sure someone somewhere has lost stuff because "the C: drive
disappeared!" I can see an end-user thinking this way, but not any sort of
professional.
> >"Uhm, your C: drive is my G: drive, right?"
>
> "My G drive is your C, right?" would sound much more logical to me (unless
> C: is mapped to the others G: of course).
Uhm, what's the difference between the two?
> Actually this is were (standard) Linux hides the information from you and
> DOS users often want to know what things are and were they come from. So
> will most people, but perhaps not on these things.
Which works well enough if you're in a single machine environment. My point
was that many so-called "professionals" still think in terms of drive
letters, even when dealing with remotely accessed network resources. I
always get e-mails that say "the file is on the P: drive". Great, if I'm in
their office with exactly the same drive mappings (which I hate). Tell me
the server and share (windows) or volume (netware) and I can find it. "P:"
means nothing from here.
> >I personally think it marks a real point of progress in one's networking
> >career (where applicable) when one can forget drive letters and think
first
> >of the relationship between devices and systems.
>
> I must agree with you here. Always think of it as some HD in some
computer.
> But it's vital IMHO to know where this HD is and which one it is.
I think Unix/Linux is much more sensible in this way. /dev/hda1 refers to
the first partition on the first device on the first IDE controller. This
will NOT change around mysteriously as drive letters will -- well not unless
you physically move the drive. DOS drive letters don't give any indication
of the real relationship to the physcial device. Again, no biggie for
'typical' usage, but fun for those of us who get to do support!
> >Just start at the beginning and work slowly. Linux, Solaris, HP-UX nor
> >anything else will look much like DOS.
>
> Or perhaps they all look like UN*X since they are all basicly clones of
UN*X.
Yes, which STILL don't look like DOS!
OK, so you all know my pet peeve now.
- Bob
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