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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:40:19 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: More flash drive humor...

In <200512160644687.SM00384@MAIN>, on 12/16/05
at 06:45 AM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>I'm not sure that I understand. I set the first place for the BIOS to
>look to a USB hard drive. If the drive shows up as a drive C:, shouldn't
>it look there? Floppy seek is disabled (I have no floppy in the unit).
>If the BIOS is looking for a USB floppy, I can re-enable that in the
>BIOS.

This is not an issue. Compare the boot records for a FAT drive and and a
diskette, which is FAT too, and you will see there are a couple of bytes
that differ. One of them ends up determining if the BIOS does diskette IO
or hard disk IO.

Steven

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