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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Using IDE and MFM Drives together
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Date: 3 Jun 91 17:03:49 GMT
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In article <3224@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne L. Smith) writes:

>When I had an RLL / SCSI combo going, I found that the partitions were
>interleaved, ie the SCSI responded with C, E, G... and the RLL had the
>D, F, etc.  Just what determined that (bios or DOS or something else)?

The drive letters are determined by DOS.  If you set the first
partition of the second drive as primary DOS it will be D:, but if it
is exteded DOS it will come after the first drives partitions.


Markus Strand
mstr@vipunen.hut.fi