Re: making flash card C: drive

Philip J. Mercurio (mercurio@nsi.edu)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:20:43 -0700

Sorry to re-post this entire message, but I wanted to say
that I tried this and it works! Thanks! People considering
buying a flash card might want to save this message, having
the flash card as C: is a nice convenience.

Phil Mercurio The Neurosciences Institute
mercurio@nsi.edu San Diego, California
http://www.nsi.edu/users/mercurio

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." -- Tom Robbins

: >Since OgFile only has menu items for A:, B:, and C:, I tried
: >rearranging things in the GEOS.INI file to call the flash card
: >C:. I couldn't get this to work, I'm guessing because the MagicRAM
: >driver assumes F:. Maybe there's an option to the driver to
: >select the drive letter,
: [CUT]
:
: What you could try is and note that I haven't tried this
: on the OG so it is purely hypothetical...
: First, I must warn you that this might not work at all! So
: backup your hardware and make sure OGEDIT is on the B: drive
: in case you have to re-edit the config.sys.
:
: If you don't also have an SRAM card or an ATA Flash card,
: Edit you config sys using OGEDIT and comment out:
:
: device = a:\pcmcia\spkss2.sys /p2
: device = a:\pcmcia\atadrvlp.exe /d:1
:
: They should become:
: REM device = a:\...
: REM device = a:\...
:
: Commenting this out will remove the drive letter reservation of
: C: and D: for SRAM use and E: for ATA Flash ram use.
: It would also remove support for SRAM and ATA flash cards.
: Your MagicRam Flash card should then become the C: drive.
:
: I again have to stress that I have never tried this on the OG
: so do a full backup and be prepared to do a hard system reset
: and loose your data!
: The above I have done many a time on notebooks also running
: DOS SystemSoft PCMCIA drivers (like the HP does) and it
: worked with with a hitch but I have no idea what HP did
: on the OG. Also this would be very unsupported by HP :-)
:
: Let me know if this helps/works.
:
: William
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