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From: georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Two Drives under Zenith 3.3+
Summary: It's all in the partitioning
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Date: 3 Jun 90 02:23:43 GMT
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In article <208@cms2.UUCP> tomf@cms2.UUCP (Tom Fortner) writes:
>In article <2975@unocss.unomaha.edu> cs002@unocss.unomaha.edu (cs002) writes:
>>In article <1990May25.090543.22345@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo) writes:
>>>    C:                 0
>>>    D:                 1
>>>    E:                 0
>>>    F:                 0
>>>    G:                 1
>>> Strange, I woulda thought all of physical drive 0, then all of 1, but no 
>This is not unique to Zenith. We have a generic clone (I think it has a 
>Charisma motherboard) with a Micropolis and a Microscience drive. Each is
>MFM formatted to their capacity, the Micropolis with 3 logical drives, the
>Microscience with 2. The same pattern of drive assignments occurred. 
>This seems to be a characteristic of Dos's drive assignment routine.
>Tom

You are correct. It is in the drive assignment routine, but it is really 
quite simple to change. (that is, if you don't mind re-partitioning)  DOS
first assigns drive letters to Primary partitions on all drives, then does
the logical drives in the Extended DOS partitions.  If you re-partition your
drive 0 to have a Primary and Extended partition (it is probably already this
way), and then change you drive 1 to have one Extended partition that
encompasses the entire drive (then broken into logical drives), DOS will 
assign drive letters in a more "natural" order.
  My system has 2 40meg drives, split 20/20 20/20, my C: & D: are on 0 and E:
& F: are on 1, by using the above method.

>    Tom Fortner 





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