Hi Jeremy,

earlier in the thread, people said it is hard to find out
which drive letters are used in a fool-proof way... Also,
I will not have "DOS time" for the rest of this week - so
if you can come up with something magic, you are welcome.

Thanks, Eric :-)


>>> ... Now, when I load DOSUSB and then "devload usbdisk.sys" the
>>> block device driver usbdisk.sys will get the drive letter F: from
>>> FreeDOS. Apparently it does not supply the next drive letter which
>>> would be G:. I can then access the flash disk as F:, but "FD11Setup"
>>> is gone.

>> If you use DEVLOAD to load your block device driver, then obviously it is
>> DEVLOAD which assigns the drive, not DOS. And DEVLOAD's ignorance of
>> non-block device CDS entries is a bug already discussed elsewhere. Wait
>> for the DEVLOAD developers to release a version (3.24?) with that bug
>> fixed. Alternatively, implement a proper regular executable (as opposed to
>> device driver) and modify the CDS and (E)DPBs and device chain yourself as
>> necessary.

> 3.23 should be the next version unless I missed one.  Anyway if Eric doesn't
> do it first I am working on updating devload to take used cds entries into
> consideration.  I hope to have a test version by this weekend, my current
> code isn't ready for others yet.

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