From: bbfaus@wam.umd.edu (John E. Krokes) Subject: Re: Rename drive A to B and B to A. Date: 28 May 1993 05:05:40 GMT
In article <1u31lkINNo9p@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> schut@rugth3.th.rug.nl (Koos Schut) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>My PC has a 5.25in "A" drive and a 3.5in "B" drive. Because I have
>access to the internet (and therefore to Linux) via computers with
>3.5in drives, only, it is desirable to get all default, sysinstall,
>boot, etc.... actions done with my PC's 3.5in drive as default. Now I
>have exchanged the connectors of my floppy drives, and changed some
>jumper settings in order to get a 3.5in "A" drive and a 5.25in "B"
>drive. Rebooting from 3.5in floppy works excellent, both with DOS and
>Linux. Also the 3.5in responds to calls for drive "A", and the 5.25
>for "B". I have also changed the BIOS settings to match this setup.
>
>HOWEVER:
>
>On command "mdir a:" I get
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/8
> No support for 80 tracks, 2 heads, 18 sector disks
> mdir: cannot initiate 'A:'
>
>And on command "mdir b:"
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/29
> floppy 1: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 1
> dev 021d, sector 0
> mdir: cannot initialize 'B:'
>
>Therefore my questions:
>
>- Is there an easier way of telling the PC to use the 3.5in "B" drive as
> default for booting, sysinstall, etc?
>- Has anyone suggestions on how to exchange the names of the drives?
>- Am I trying to do something I do not want?
>
Make sure your /etc/mtools file matches your new configuration. (swap the
entries for a: and b:.)
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