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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VP/ix and Floppy Drives
Message-ID: <317@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 18 Mar 90 00:51:29 GMT
References: <15030011@hpfijdw.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
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In article <15030011@hpfijdw.HP.COM> jdw@hpfijdw.HP.COM (Jeff Wood) writes:
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[Why can't I use the B: drive in VP/ix?]

Although undocumented, I have seen several reports that VP/ix can't deal
with more than 1 floppy assignment at a time.  My own very limited
experience would tend to confirm this.  If this is true, then for the 
examples you stated, DOS is probably operating as though you have only
1 floppy on the system.  When this situation is present, DOS uses the
single floppy as both A: and B:.  Try your commands again with a disk
in your physical A: drive and see if it doesn't act differently.
I >>THINK<< that the only practical solution to this is to re-start
VP/ix with only the B: drive defined when you need to use it.

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