Re: [ProgSoc] Win98 hard drive letters

[Christian Kent <whophd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Murray Grant wrote:

> > > One existing drive, with C,D,E partitions. Added a new drive array which
> > > shows up as D, and pushes up D,E to E,F.

Actually I know I've already declared this a lost cause in private mail,
but a couple of ideas emerge ...

Norton WinDoctor looks for broken registry things and then scans alternate
drives for things that got moved, and maybe fixes them.

The other idea involves getting your BIOS to cooperate ... ideally it
would allow you to allocate the drive letters you wanted -- maybe with the
use of a really good drive controller.  OK now we're heading to SCSI
controllers.  If the D: was SCSI then maybe you could something about
telling it where to go.  (SCSI->IDE adaptor just to achieve that sounds
ludicrous though).

Maybe think about putting D: on your secondary IDE and then disabling
that.  And then getting Windows to recognise it in the Win32 space only,
such that when you boot DOS7 it can't see C: but when you get to Win32 it
will try to grab it.  As long as the IRQ is still there (15 for the
secondary usually, 14 for the other one).  Maybe it would still detect
after the BIOS ignores it.

Ah, I've got your perfect (expensive) solution:  Attach the new D: to a
Storage Area Network (SAN) and then put a Fibre Channel card into your
PC.  Set the FC driver to allocate F: or whatever.

Fkn solved it  ;)


CK.
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