Using A Single Diskette Drive System - Epson Equity 4 User Manual

Caution
Never remove a diskette or reset or turn off the computer
while a diskette drive light is on. You could lose data. Also,
remove all diskettes before you turn off the computer.

Using a Single Diskette Drive System

Most operating systems expect the computer to have at least
two diskette drives and display prompts and messages
accordingly. MS-DOS, for example, recognizes the first diskette
drive (the top drive) as drive A and a second diskette drive as
drive B. If you have only one diskette drive, MS-DOS can treat
it as both A and B when you need to perform operations that
would use two diskette drives.
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For example, if you enter a command to copy data from A to B,
MS-DOS copies the data from the first diskette you place in the
drive (which would be drive A) to
Then MS-DOS prompts you to insert another diskette (for
drive B) and copies the data from memory to the new diskette.
When copying is complete, you see a prompt to insert the
original diskette (A).
Because you may often swap diskettes this way, it is important
to remember which diskette is which. It is also a good idea to
write-protect your original diskette. (See "Write-protecting
Diskettes," above.)
you have a hard disk and one diskette drive, you can load the
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operating system and application programs from the hard disk,
create and store your data there, and use the diskette drive just
for copying data to or from diskettes.
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