Rick --

When the client first gave me this computer to work on, and I saw that it had
the A and D drive letters, I pulled his hard drive, put in a blank one I keep
around here for this kind of thing, and put a clean install of Win95B on it.
With absolutely no drivers loaded, the OR Technology brand LS-120 automatically
showed up as both an A and D drive in My Computer and in Windows Explorer. I
reformatted the hard drive, and put Win98 on it.  Same thing.

Apparently the client had called OR Technology at one point, and they apparently
worked with him to try to make the A drive letter go away.  They weren't able to
do so, and I wasn't able to get them to answer their phone.  I have no clue why
this drive is doing this, or the long term effects of it.

Anyone else out there have an OR Technology LS-120 drive?

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Glazier Sent: Saturday, July 04, 1998 22:53
>
>      I have heard it is very dangerous if a drive shows up as two
> different letters, if it is really only one. You stand a very real chance
> of data corruption.  I have only had this problem (in hard drives) when
> the drive was "installed" or configured in the BIOS AND when
> software drivers were loaded latter that "installed" or  recognized
> the same drive for a second time.

> On Sat, 4 Jul 1998 13:38:04 -0700 Roxanne Pierce
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >Is it normal for the OR LS-120's to be visible as both an A drive and
> >as a D drive in Win95B and/or Win98?
>