Display article   Subject:  Copying Files with 2 Types of Drives
   04/30/97   18:17:36


COPYING FILES WITH TWO FLOPPY DRIVES OF DIFFERENT TYPES

The following information pertains to a two-floppy drive system with
03.20.xx or 03.30.00 MS-DOS.

To copy a file from a 3.5-inch disk to another 3.5-inch disk in the same
drive, enter the following statement in the CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 /H:2 /S:9 /T:80


This assigns logical Drives A and C to physical drive 0.

Reboot the system to install the device driver, then type:


COPY A:FILENAME.EXT C:<ENTER>


This copies the file and prompts for diskette changes at the proper time.

Likewise, a similar statement may be used for a 360K Drive B to create a
logical Drive D and assign it to physical Drive 1.  The entry for doing
this would be:

DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /F:0 /H:2 /S:9 /T:40


In this example, the command "COPY B:FILENAME D:" will copy a file from
Drive B to logical Drive D, again prompting for diskette changes at the
proper time.

Note:  This procedure assumes that Drive C and/or Drive D are non-existent.
