Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Felix Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint,aus.computers,alt.os.linux.debian Subject: Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:19:00 +1000 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <107gvck$3m18l$1@dont-email.me> <107h25f$3mgcl$1@dont-email.me> <107lntr$p3va$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net byQEY70fUjvpjLS6p4abEA2um45Nec+erTsHXUpiOSszA18xzg Cancel-Lock: sha1:VFS5bvvrsITXQ4cp6CH4VDoztcU= sha256:uA6IE1ofBPvDAyJ1poeaDLAF6pKbPlulZeoXBUshvjk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.21 In-Reply-To: <107lntr$p3va$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:45102 aus.computers:72735 alt.os.linux.debian:10675 Paul wrote: > On Thu, 8/14/2025 8:35 AM, Xeno wrote: >> On 14/8/2025 2:38 pm, Felix wrote: >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:04:52 -0400, Alan K. wrote: >>>> >>>>> as /media/alan/DATA or /media/alan/C_Drive >>>> What happened to “A” and “B” drives? >>> they're floppies >>> >> I haven't had a floppy drive in a computer for yonks, the last 3 new ones didn't even have CD/DVD drives. Even the few PCs I have built in recent times - like the past 20 years - had 250 Meg Zip Drives and they were rarely used. A: and B: names should be freed up to reflect current computer usage. >> > They (A and B) are available. On computers with the floppy disk controller disabled > or non-existent, the letters are in the Disk Management list as candidates. > > They are just not automatically dispensed, but are available to be > manually dispensed. You will not find one of your Windows partitions > set to A or B via the OS by accident. > > diskpart.exe > select disk 0 > select partition 2 > assign letter=a > exit > > And no, I wouldn't do that. That's to show they aren't wasted. > You can get at them. "A and B can run, but they can't hide." > > Paul interesting -- Linux Mint 22.1