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vol [Drive:] Arguments: Drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number. Note: On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later. OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive.
The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability to display information about, create, and delete DOS partitions or logical DOS drive. It can also install a standard master boot record on the hard drive. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later and IBM PC DOS 2.0 releases and later. [1]
Assign the drive letter A: to the first floppy disk drive (drive 0), and B: to the second floppy disk drive (drive 1). If only one physical floppy is present, drive B: will be assigned to a phantom floppy drive mapped to the same physical drive and dynamically assigned to either A: or B: for easier floppy file operations.
Create the proper registry keys for the host drive letter (optional, works around the host drive label override caveat); Re-create the SUBST drive to see label changes applied. Note that the LABEL command is NOT able to change the label name of a drive letter created using subst. [8] LABEL is one of several commands that only work on physical ...
Drive mapping is how MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows associate a local drive letter (A-Z) with a shared storage area to another computer (often referred as a File Server) over a network. After a drive has been mapped , a software application on a client 's computer can read and write files from the shared storage area by accessing that drive, just ...
Seagate ST 506 5 1 ⁄ 4-inch HDD with cover removed.. Late in 1984, Fiscal Information Inc., of Florida, demonstrated the Lt. Kernal hard drive subsystem for the C64.The Lt. Kernal mated a 10 megabyte Seagate ST-412 hard drive to an OMTI SASI intelligent controller, creating a high speed bus interface to the C64's expansion port.
Drive Letter Access (DLA) is a discontinued commercial packet writing application for the Microsoft Windows operating system that allows optical disc data storage devices to be used in a manner similar to floppy disks. DLA is a packet writing technology for CD and DVD media that uses the UDF file system.
The external models were installed in a Zip-drive-style case, and used standard USB 1.1 connections. Iomega used the DirectCD software from Adaptec to allow UDF drive-letter access to CD-R or CD-RW media. The company released an open standard CD-R drive and CD-RW media under the same ZipCD name.