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Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint, aus.computers, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question
Date 2025-08-13 03:41 -0400
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On Tue, 8/12/2025 11:52 PM, 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?
> 

Originally, the floppy drive controller was the first
thing detected (it was on the SuperIO, on LPC bus).

If the floppy controller was turned on, the dual
media device would be assigned letter "A" and letter "B",
even when no media was inserted in the drive.

In a similar way, USB card readers have been assigned
E,F,G,H even when no media is present. The optical drive
could be D, and not have media in the tray and still use
a letter.

*******

In some cases, if you go into the BIOS and switch off
the floppy controller, the OS then does not assign A and B
to the SuperIO floppy. This allows assignment later, to
a USB floppy housing, of a drive letter "A" manually.
Some softwares were picky enough, they would not work
correctly unless the floppy they were launched from was
exactly A: . when flashing up the firmware on an optical
drive, some of those tools only worked if the optical drive
was a "Secondary Master", in other words a fixed role, and
then you had to fiddle the cabling to suit the programming
software.

C: is not always the system drive on Windows. If you do the
right things, the letter can end up as D: .

If you boot installer media in the Windows ecosystem,
that is loaded as a ramdisk, the media can be popped out
once the bootable section is loaded. The letter assigned
in that case is X: , and the high assignment allows working
with media in the computer as a C: (for convenience). Using
the "diskpart.exe" command line utility, you can make and
also remove drive letters, while you work from a DVD disc.
You can assign drive letters to hidden partitions (yes, in the
year 2025, you need to know how to do that).

   Paul

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Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-08-12 23:04 -0400
  Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 03:52 +0000
    Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-13 03:41 -0400
      Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 08:25 +0000
        Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-08-13 09:18 +0000
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2025-08-13 22:18 +1000
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Loach505 <riffraffdj@gmail.com> - 2025-08-13 09:49 -0600
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 21:22 +0000
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-08-14 00:21 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-14 02:38 +0000
        Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-13 12:41 -0400
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-13 19:44 +0100
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-08-13 19:10 +0000
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-08-13 15:18 -0400
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 21:16 +0000
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-14 15:20 +1000
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-14 05:53 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-08-15 04:54 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-15 14:58 +1000
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-14 22:36 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-14 23:20 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-08-16 07:13 -0400
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-17 12:29 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-17 12:31 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-17 15:59 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-17 07:07 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-17 17:40 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-17 22:01 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-18 08:18 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-18 00:15 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-18 01:35 -0400
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-18 07:24 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2025-08-18 20:43 +0100
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-19 10:36 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-19 13:10 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-19 23:15 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 21:25 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-18 12:09 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-18 01:53 -0400
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-18 07:25 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-18 20:52 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-18 12:13 -0400
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-19 10:31 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-19 09:10 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-19 10:40 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-08-19 12:37 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 03:16 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-19 20:49 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-19 21:31 +1000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-19 16:38 -0400
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-20 00:34 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-18 05:51 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-18 05:54 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-17 03:16 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-08-17 08:15 -0400
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-14 16:30 +0000
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-14 20:42 +0100
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-16 00:10 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-16 09:20 +0100
              Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-15 00:52 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-16 00:10 +0000
                Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-16 02:02 +0000
    Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-14 14:38 +1000
      Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-14 22:35 +1000
        Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-14 23:18 +1000
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-15 12:21 +1000
            Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2025-08-15 15:39 +1000
        Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-14 18:28 -0400
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-15 12:19 +1000
          Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-16 00:10 +0000
  Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-14 14:37 +1000

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