From: Phil Galbiati <Philip DOT S DOT Galbiati AT Tek DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Drive Help
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:34:45 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Dave Pearson wrote:
> 
> > Are you saying that it's there, even when it isn't?
> 
> I'm saying that it is always there on a PC.  If the drive is
> disconnected, as far as I know DOS will refuse to boot.

This is certainly not the case for laptops which have no floppy
drives (ala Compaq Aero(?)).  References to A: and B: get handled by
card services which then has to deal with making sure that a floppy
drive is plugged into the PC-Card slot, but card services are
typically loaded in the config.sys file, so they are not available
until well into the boot process.

--Phil Galbiati
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