Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tope
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: My programs don't like my devices...
Keywords: Device names
Message-ID: <3505@enea.se>
Date: 15 Jun 88 08:50:38 GMT
Reply-To: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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I have an Amiga 2000 with one internal and one external floppy drive
plus a Rodime SCSI hard disk. The hard disk automatically gets the
name dh2: and the external floppy gets the name df2:.

This sometimes creates problems not so easily avoided. Some programs
don't find/like df2: if you don't have df1: Sometimes a simple
assign df1: df2: may help, but sometimes there's problems.

I don't have the program assigndev (no direct access to Fish disks),
so the assign is done to the disk currently in df2:. Could somebody
email me the program, please?

Some two-diskette games are so packed, that you really can't add
the assign command, and it's not so funny editing original disks.
Are there any other solutions ? (hardware strapping, preboot with
some sort of assigndev that stays in the memory after warm reboot)