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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: HELP! 2 40meg HDDs
Keywords: help,harddrive,plus,386,config
Message-ID: <1376@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 11:07:04 GMT
References: <Apr.25.10.24.58.1989.2570@thorogood.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <Apr.25.10.24.58.1989.2570@thorogood.rutgers.edu> pmoore@thorogood.rutgers.edu (Peter Moore) writes:
<
<HELP!  I have a 386pc with the following configuration and am having
<diffulty with my hard drives.
<
<1 40meg Seagate internal drive (ST-251-1)
<1 40meg Plus HardCard (internal on a card)
<
<The problem is this:  The LOGICAL DRIVES are screwed up.
<I have each drive partitioned as two 21.3 (or whatever) volumes.
<So I would have liked the Seagate to be C; and D:
<and the plus hardcard to be E: and F:

Sorry, but that is flat out *impossible*! DOS assigns drive letters
to each physical drive *before* it ever gets to config.sys. And until
it reads config.sys it doesn't know that the second partition exists.
Then when it loads the driver it assigns drive letters to the newly
"found" drives. I'm not sure what happens if you have three partitions
on a drive. I'd guess that both of the "extra" partitions would get
assigned in order. ie.
drive 1
	C: 
	E:
	F:
drive 2
	D:
	G:
	H:

<Instead the following is happening:::
<
<The Seagate has been set by dos as logical C: and F:
<The Plus HardCard has been set as logical D: and E: (ALSO, E: is also 
<    accessible as logical G:!!!!!!)   What the Heck.

Check and see if you have an ASSIGN command in your autoexec.
The only other thing I can think of is that your disk drive
has the drive select set incorrectly, or your driver file is
bad.
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