| From: | Stephen Webber |
| Date: | 11 Jun 2001 at 23:43:58 |
| Subject: | Device and volume names (Was Re: (unknown) ) |
Hi Kai
On 11-Jun-01, you wrote:
> On 10-Jun-01, Stephen Webber wrote:
>> Workbench will access a drive through either volume of device name.
>> device name= df0: - OR - volume name= empty:
> There's a third name too, and that's "SYS:" (namely the device from
> where your Amiga was booted).
Sys: is a logical device name, and is not fixed to any drive. i.e. it follows
whichever drive you have booted from.
>> This is a good reason for giving your hard drive device
>> partitions names like IDH0: and IDH1: instead of System: or Work:
> This is hardly no good idea.
> 1) It's a VOLUME name, not a device.
No, device names are, fro example, df0:, ram:, cd0:, etc. Volume names are
empty: ram disk:
> 2) Never use colon in volume names.
You're correct, workbench will not allow you to use a colon when naming drives,
but it is required to access the drive. The colons were there to clarify I was
referring to disks
> 3) I've seen things messed up just because devicename was HD0: and not DH0:
Anything which messes up because somebody decided to call their device name hd0:
instead of dh0: has been very badly implemented. these names are entirely
user-defineable, and shouldn't be relied on.
> 4) Most install-scripts use 'WORK' as default for DH1:
Nothing to stop you giving the device name dh0: a volume name of work:
> - Just to make sure that nothing is misunderstood :)
Likewise for this mail :-)
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