ugfailau@sunybcs (Fai Lau) (01/20/88)
Hi, thanx to a couple of emails I have solved the "How to get
more than four drive designations" problem. Now there is a couple
of peculiar points.
I put a batch file in a virtual drive. And the batch file
contains a statement to dis-subst the same drive. I run the batch file,
as soon as the SUBST /D had been executed, the virtual drive simply
disappears into the thin air and the DOS can't find the batch file
to continue!!! I mean, doesn't DOS load the whole batch file
into the memory at the first place....
I use the Mace Park (parking HD heads) _every_time_ before
I turn off the PC. Since I always have a virtual D drive in drive
C whenever the PC is on, the Mace Park would park the C drive twice;
it parks the C drive, and then park the C drive again when it attempts
to park the non-existant D drive. It apparently thinks that the C drive
IS the D drive just because it "finds" the D drive In the C drive.
So I figured that, just for the sake of argument, I have
20 virtual drives installed whenever the PC is on. Mace is
gonna take forever to park that C drive 20 times. Isn't that
interesting? I'll have to reluctantly consider it a bug.
Is there a fix? I use Mace Park whever I'm about to turn off
the PC just to make sure the data on the hard disk is under
the least amount of hazard. Am I paranoid?
It doesn't happen in memory resident virtual drive,
though. Mace Park is so smart to figure it out when there is
nothing to park;-)
Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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