ca_bt@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (12/02/89)
I just bought and installed a third floppy diskette drive in my AT clone so now I have a 1.2 MB drive, a 360K drive, and a 1.44 MB drive. I also have a 40 Meg hard drive partitioned as 2 logical drives. When the computer boots, it looks for a bootable disk in the 1.2 MB drive A, then looks at the 1.44 MB drive as drive C, and finally determines there is a hard disk which has DOS and gets assigned drive designations D and E. My problem is twofold: first off all, when booting, the system spins drive C (the 1.44 MB floppy) for quite a while before deciding the drive is empty and going on to drive D (the hard drive). Sometimes after a warm boot the system won't even go to try booting off drive D. Also, I have all sorts of batch files and program configuration files which are set up for the hard drives as drives C & D. Before I go off and change all the configuration files on my system, is there some way for me to specify the hard disk as drive C & D and have the third floppy (1.44 MB drive) as drive E or some other letter? The DOS ASSIGN command won't cut it. Would some form of the DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS command help me? Or do I need a different BIOS? The system is a 12 Mhz clone with AMI 12/16Mhz '286 BIOS. I'm using generic MS-DOS 3.3. The first two floppy drives are being driven by a standard AT-type hard/floppy disk controller, while the third floppy is being driven by another floppy controller card which functions as a secondary controller (with an I/O address of 370-377h and a BIOS address at CA00h) Any help is highly appreciated! Thanks! Bill Tsang CA_BT@gsbacd.uchicago.edu 312-684-0470