-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Existence of 2nd floppy drive??

<Copy>
Dates back to DOS when A: could emulate a second drive or drive b:  you 
just had to type in B:\ and put in the other disk.  DOS would keep track of 
what disk should be in what drive.
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That is exactly what happened, and I completely forgot about that ability 
for a single floppy drive to emulate another floppy drive.

Robert

>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert Carneal
>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:08 PM
>To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Existence of 2nd floppy drive??
>
>
>This might be off list, I hope not.
>
>I wrote a routine in BASIC to detect what drives are available in a
>person's machine. I do *not* have two floppy drives; just the lone single
>3.5 inch floppy drive A.
>
>For some reason, my program is reporting two floppy drives. Can it be set
>up in BIOS to reflect two floppy drives even though I don't physically have
>such?
>
>Could/would something in BIOS settings cause this?



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