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From: r3hjl@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Howard J. Lymor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a Third Floppy Drivea
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Date: 9 Jan 91 14:26:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.002139.9708@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <68yq028t04=X01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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In article <68yq028t04=X01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>In article <1991Jan8.002139.9708@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> simpson@aplcen (Simpson David) writes:
>>
>>I have an 80386 computer with two floppy drives (A: and B:) and 
>>a hard disk drive (C:).  What would happen if I were to add 
>>a third floppy drive, or say a CD-ROM drive?  Would my hard disk
>>become drive D:, or would it stay drive C: and the new floppy
>>drive become D:? 
>
>Hard disks are automatically labled after the floppies present.  So if
>you have 3 floppies (like me) you hard disks will start as D:
>>
>>Thanks for any help.
>>                                 David Simpson
>/*   Kent L. Shephard  : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com   */

I'm not so sure about that.  It's been our experience that
the hard disk drive designator is done by the Fdisk (or some
other suitable partioning, initializing program).  After that,
ANY drive, floppy, hard, CD that is added, is given the next
available letter by the (help me out here for you rom and bios
folks) bios(?, maybe DOS, but I doubt it).  Anyway, that has
been our experience with older pc's, xt's and 2 AT's.  

Good luck, hope this helps,

Howard

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