lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) (07/15/88)
Hi. I've been wishing for some time that I had a "dummy" device driver
which I could throw in my CONFIG.SYS to use up a disk-drive letter. Why?
Well, I like to create a logical drive D: and SUBST it to one of my sub-
directories. Trouble arises if I wand to use a RAM disk or some such be-
cause the driver for that wants to grab the D: identifier. At the moment,
I'm using DRIVER.SYS to create a dummy block device D: which I later over-
ride with my SUBST command. It works, but it seems a waste of memory.
Anybody got such a thing or heard of one or is inspired to create one?
Any tips/contributions much appreciated.
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John Wright ////////////////// Phone: 902-424-3805 or 902-424-6527
Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S., CANADA B3H-4H8
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Uucp: lane@dalcs.uucp or {uunet,watmath,utai,garfield}!dalcs!lane farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) (07/17/88)
In article <2950@dalcs.UUCP> lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes: >Well, I like to create a logical drive D: and SUBST it to one of my sub- >directories. Trouble arises if I wand to use a RAM disk or some such be- >cause the driver for that wants to grab the D: identifier. Why not do as I do, and use Z:? Set LASTDRIVE=Z in your config.sys, and off you go. Chances that you'll ever have 26 block storage devices on your system are fairly slim, methinks. -- Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame