+1 Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if they need. But that's just me. :)
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 31, 2021 3:46 AM, Carsten Strotmann <cars...@strotmann.de> wrote: > Hi Ladislav, > > On 30 May 2021, at 23:44, Ladislav Lacina wrote: > > > Maybe is a time to consider whether to break the MS-DOS compatibility > > about > > handling the one physical diskette drive as two logical drives - A: > > and B: > > It maybe had some reason in 1982 but now? > > the same reason that was valid in 1982 is still valid today: machines > with only one floppy drive and no harddisk. I have a couple of these > machines where I use FreeDOS on (not only old machines, even some > relatively modern machines where the hard drives have been removed). > > The function is important when working in such environments. > > However it might be possible to introduce a configuration option in > config.sys that disables this function if users wish (or even inhibit > the phantom drive B: by default in case FreeDOS detects at least one > usable hard-drive partition during boot-up). > > Greetings > > Carsten > > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
