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From: sasgig@unx.sas.com (Greg Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy disk questions
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Date: 20 May 91 17:50:56 GMT
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In an article, chandoni@husc9.harvard.edu (A Potential Security Problem) writes:
>
>Question 2:
>	Is there a way to boot from drive B: (on my system, a 
>3.5" drive) without switching the hardware?  I'd like to
>keep my 5.25" drive as A:, but still boot the occasional
>3.5" disk... there must be some obvious way to do this,
>but I have no idea.

PC/Computing magazine threw this question out to readers last July
and there were at least two answers:  (1) pull the skin off and swap
floppy cables (making A: B: and vice versa), or (2) there is actually
some software that does this you can buy.  Didn't say how.  My guess
is that it scrambles BIOS' ideas as to which floppy is which during
the boot process.

Personally I think (1) is the simplest, but if you want to know more
details about (2), I could go look it up if somebody else doesn't
answer first :-).
-- 
Greg Grimes          |  "Sit down, please.  There are a thousand questions I'd
AIX Host Development |  like to ask you."   -- Prof. Jacob Barnhardt to Klaatu
sasgig@unx.sas.com   |                       ("The Day the Earth Stood Still")