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Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 03:12:46 PDT
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: "Not enough drive letters"

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Tony Anton wrote:
>
> DOS. on C: sees the second and third partitons on
> HD 2 as it should, as D: and E:, but it doesn't
> show the CD ROM. As sutoexec runs, however, the
> CDROm is detected.
>
> So! What can be done about this?

You _do_ have LASTDRIVE=Z in your CONFIG.SYS, yes? The MS-DOS default
for LASTDRIVE is one more drive than you actually have, so if anything
else is using a drive letter there won't be one available for your
CD-ROM unless you use LASTDRIVE. ("Z" might be overkill)

- Peter Skye

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