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From: nick@sura.net (Nick Lemberos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I install external floppy drive as B:?
Keywords: external 5.25, model 55
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.232122.7401@sura.net>
Date: 9 Apr 91 23:21:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.190531.6483@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> defreese@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Barry DeFreese) writes:
>In article <50070@nigel.ee.udel.edu> donhowe@udel.edu () writes:
>>I have a 55SX with a 3.5" 1.44M floppy A: drive and a
>>60 Mb hard C: drive.  I have been successful in installing
>>an external 5.25" floppy drive as a D: drive but I cannot
>>configure it as a B: drive.  It's not a big deal....I'm just
>>curious....why can't this be done?  What can you put in the
>>B: position?
>>...

>
>If it a low density 5.25" drive it should have installed as drive B:, but
>if you installed a 1.2 meg floppy the only way to get it to drive B: is to
>put in a subst in your autoexec.bat.  As for the memory, I am not sure
>about using 4M simms.
>
>Barry
 
  last i inquired, it was not possible to install an external IBM 5.25
 inch drive as drive B: on the IBM PS/2 Model 55.  I can only guess
 that IBM uses a software driver on this machine instead of supporting
 the drive via hardware.  
  It is a major pain for us and is the reason why we are not going to 
 buy 20+ IBM model 55s for a new lab we are setting up. ALL..i repeat
 ALL our workstations have a 5.25 360KB b: drive.  some have 3.5"
 A: drives, and some have 5.25 HD A: drives. but all have a 360kb B: drive.

 if anyone has a working solution, please let me know.
                            nick

nick@umuc.umd.edu