FLIP FLOPPIES utility.
Do you have a B25-MF1 dual floppy drive ? Does it drive you crazy that
the 3 1/2" drive is [F0] and the 5 1/4" drive is [F1] ? Have you ever tried
to install older software (on 5 1/4" diskettes) only to discover that the
installation submit file hard-codes [F0] in the script ?
Then Flip Floppies is for you. Basically, the utility allows you to
"flip" the assigment of the device name between any two floppy drive devices,
such as a 3 1/2" diskette drive and a 5 1/4" diskette drive, dynamically. And
it's simple to use. The command form appears as:
Flip Floppies
Floppy device name #1 (no [ ])
Floppy device name #2 (no [ ])
You simply supply the (current) name of the diskette drives that you wish
to "flip". If you have already "flipped" them, you can "flip" them back.
There is one restriction which the utility enforces, to wit:
There can be no floppy diskette mounted in EITHER drive.
That's all. No other restrictions. If you key in a bad name, or the same
name twice or a non-existant name, you'll get an error message. We've used
it with an SG-5000 and a B25-MF1 drive on the X-Bus (which is actually a non-
supported configuration). In such a case, the 5 1/4" drive is [F2] ! ! !
The utility makes it very easy to reassign the name to [F0].
Enjoy !
- Dave Adams
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