Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: android@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andy Wilks) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: MSDOS 5 feature? (How to disable... Message-ID: <50690@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 17 Jun 91 22:12:55 GMT References: Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: android@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andy Wilks) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 27 In article gasior@khazad-dum.rutgers.edu (Eric Gasior) writes: )I'm upgrading to MSDOS 5.0 from PCDOS 3.30 and have (so far) discovered one )feature I'd like to disable, the volume serial number on floppy and hard disks. )Any suggestions? Don't mess with it. The volume serial number has been added so dos can handle an unexpected media change. (swapping diskettes in the drive at the wrong time.) The info is actually store in the boot sector and it takes up space that use to be dead space at the end of the sector. )EDG )gasior@hardees.rutgers.edu /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/ * I don't express opinions, I just follow orders... (___) * / (o o) / * Andy Wilks One of the few .sig's-> /-------\ / * / andy@fiskville.mc.utexas.edu with ASCII livestock. / | ||O / * android@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu * ||,---|| * / University of Texas at Austin ^^ ^^ / * copyright (c) 1934,1942,1961,1990,1991 BEVO * /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/