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Message 5 Sun Apr 12, 1987
P.WEST [Paul] at 03:04 PDT
I found a way to do some kind of change. (Not the one I wanted however.)
With the Dec 8Bios the command CONF POKE fbdb=96fb will create a new drive F:
that seems to be a mirror of m: except that all of M: files are there ut if
you put files on f: they are not assecable from m: It seems to set up a
separate directory since the same file can be a sys file on one drive and a
dir file on the other.
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Message 6 Mon Apr 13, 1987
MICHAEL.M at 01:49 EDT
Hmmm...interesting find. I'll have to play around with that one a bit.
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Message 7 Tue Apr 14, 1987
KEVIN.S at 20:47 EDT
That is an interesting discovery, all right. Can I ask why you were trying to
change the drive number in the first place? Just curious, I haven't run into
any programs which wouldn't ddress the unit as M: without trouble.
KeS
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Message 8 Tue Apr 14, 1987
MICHAEL.M at 21:19 EDT
I've found a few that only allow a certain range of drives. PCFILE lets you
use A thru D only, for example. (And *that* is one program that would be real
nice to have address drive M:)
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Message 9 Fri Apr 17, 1987
T.MENEGATOS [Tom] at 13:31 EDT
Yes, I would also *LOVE* to be able to change to another drive name and
someone mentioned another DREAM of mine: on bootup, make CP/M look to drive
M: for the startup files! That would be super! Anyway if anyone has any of
these mods, let us know!
