From: Bernd Blaauw <bbla...@home.nl> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:28:55 +0100 > 'Drive' is a typical DOS terminology, meaning partition/volume, thus > sda1 etc. It's used as 'Drive C:'. Basically referring to everything > which has a driveletter assigned (floppy, harddisk, cdrom, network > shares, etc).
Well that was OK when diskettes were the only rotating media. Usually a diskette wasn't partitioned. "Part" and "volume" were synonymous. Where a hard disk drive is involved, "drive" should mean "hard disk drive" and "part" should mean "part of a hard disk drive". When software says it will "format the drive" I want to be sure it doesn't mean "format the whole hard disk drive". Unambiguous terminology really does help. I had hoped to run FreeDOS on the OLPC XO-1.5 but it is no simple problem. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Our_software Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
