Whats the B Drive?

[CTrainBEB]

Why is there no B drive?

Also why is the floppy usually A and the main hard drive usually C

 

[agnitrate]

B is second floppy

-silver

 

[CTrainBEB]

man thats weak

 

[iamme]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_drive

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
B is second floppy

-silver

 

[SynthDude2001]

Back in the day, there would often be two floppy drives (since older computers often didn't have a hard drive at all). The secondary floppy (whether 3.5" or 5.25") would be B, usually.

 

[Malak]

B is the real deal floppy floppy drive.

 

[thirdlegstump]

B 4 realz kid.

 

[Colt45]

what are you, 12?

 

[Platypus]

Don't worry, assigning devices letters is a stupid idea anyway

 

[amol]

in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.

 

[FoBoT]

this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.

 

[sharkeeper]

Yes in the days of using two floppies the A drive was the 1.44MB 3.5" media and the B drive was the 1.2MB 5.25" media. I ran out of drives once due to network mapped drives and a card reader so I made one of the USB drives B and it worked fine. Windows will still call it a 5 ¼" too!

Cheers!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.

i used one last week

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.

I don't use them very often, but when I do, it's often a mission-critical type thing (loading scsi/raid drivers to do an install, flashing hardware, etc)

for the price, why not have one? not like I'd be doing anything else with that bay.

 

[rh71]

5.25" floppies rock.

 

[RaDragon]

Originally posted by: rh71
5.25" floppies rock.

Amen. I remember when I'd have stacks of them --- at least 5 5.25" for one game

 

[czech09]

Oregon Train on 5.25" floppies bi's that was the shiit some 12 yrs ago or so...

 

[sharkeeper]

8" floppy >*anyfloppy

Cheers!

 

[Sukhoi]

Nothing can beat playing Oregon Trail in elementary school on Apple IIe's.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.

Whats an 8-track

 

[sharkeeper]

Sneakers was fun. (the game I guess this was 1982 or so)

Cheers!

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.

No, it's a jumper setting on the ZIP drive.