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  From: <"/S=Macintosh/G=Brian/OU=stellaris/CN=Brian/"@server1.stellaris.com.au>
  To  : <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
        < linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:50:44 +0930

RE: [OT] Drive letter weirdness

Hello Brian,
my recollection is that DOS has trouble accessing drives after a 
non-DOS partition but I did think that this was on a per-disk basis. 
Try swapping the disks around and boot from a DOS floppy.
regards,
Brian Macintosh
Consultant
Stellaris Consulting
8267 4111
brian@stellaris.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: bastill@sa.apana.org.au [mailto:bastill@sa.apana.org.au]
Sent: Monday, 16 July 2001 12:33 PM
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au
Subject: FW: [OT] Drive letter weirdness


Sorry, list - I don't know where else to ask.
The system I have is triple boot WinNT, DOS (using Win95 command.com)
and Linux.
Until I can switch everything to Linux I must have
either Win or DOS working.
I have two 8G HDs on that system. All partitions are FAT16 so
everything can read everything else (other than the M$ reading ext2fs,
of course).  Therefore no partition is larger than the 2G limit in size.

In WinNT  Drive 1 C E (G=CD) H I J K  Drive 2 D F ;(ext2 area)
In DOS     Drive 1 C E F (G=CD) H I J  Drive 2 D K ;(ext2 area)

Furthermore, DOS thinks K is empty, whereas WinNT sees all the files in
F (The same partition given the letter K in Drive 2 by DOS).
Wierd.

Can anyone help me correct the DOS mistake?

-- 
Regards,
Brian

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Dr Brian Astill  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education
Bus 8201 3480     FAX 8449 9199
bastill@sa.apana.org.au
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