- Showing Drive Label
- Posted by Peter J Seymour on April 20th, 2008
This might be wishful thinking, but is it possible to have the desktop
Drives folder show the drive label as well as the drive letter?
Peter
- Posted by Andreas Schnellbacher on April 20th, 2008
On 20.04.08 22:48, Peter J Seymour wrote:
You can simply rename the drive objects. IMO that is better than using
the somewhere existing extension, because of the overhead from its
daemon.
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Andreas Schnellbacher
- Posted by William L. Hartzell on April 21st, 2008
Sir:
Andreas Schnellbacher wrote:
Which extension? Can see a value for removables.
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Bill
Thanks a Million!
- Posted by Andreas Schnellbacher on April 21st, 2008
On 21.04.08 04:39, William L. Hartzell wrote:
Drive Label Daemon by Daniel Jorge Caetano: Was hard to find, but here
is it: http://194.231.187.196/file3/gfd/sys/disk/drvl100e.zip
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Andreas Schnellbacher
- Posted by William L. Hartzell on April 22nd, 2008
Sir:
Andreas Schnellbacher wrote:
cat-jaguar-face icon), before someone else named their program to the
same name. Got it, thanks.
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Bill
Thanks a Million!
- Posted by Peter J Seymour on April 22nd, 2008
Andreas Schnellbacher wrote:
The issue for me is that I have just upgraded from Windows 98 to XP on
this dual boot machine and XP assigns drive letters differently to OS/2.
The way to minimise confusion is for OS/2 to display the drive labels as
well as XP (XP does automatically). The daemon overhead (is there really
much?) is not an issue on this client workstation.
Thanks
Peter
- Posted by Peter J Seymour on April 22nd, 2008
Peter J Seymour wrote:
drive(s) are un-occupied, the label shown is that of the nearest
previous occupied device in the sequence.
I will see if the author is still working on the package.
Peter
- Posted by Nelson M. G. Santiago on April 22nd, 2008
In <IXjPj.56885$h65.56769@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, on 04/22/08
at 11:26 AM, Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> said:
He can be found at:
http://www.caetano.eng.br/main/index.php?l=en
Nelson
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- Posted by Peter Brown on April 22nd, 2008
Hi
Peter J Seymour wrote:
My experience is slightly different:-
If the CD devices are unoccupied then the labels for both devices *was*
[No label] - but only after initial installation. Once a CD device gets
a disc with a label inserted that 1st label seems to stick.
Both CD devices here currently show the volume label of the disc
inserted ie V:[ecs20rc4] and W:[bootablecd]. When I eject V: followed by
W: the labels changed to [ecs20rc4] for both devices. Maybe this is
because the [ecs20rc4] disc had been previously used in the W: CD drive...
Interestingly attaching a USB drive will give both those CD devices the
same drive label as the USB drive - the USB drive may not display a
label for a while. With both CD devices empty and both displaying
[ecs20rc4] I attached a 128Mb USB Pen drive. When the Drives folder
eventually refreshed to show all labels I had:-
P:[peter01]
V:[peter01]
W:[peter01]
After ejecting the USB (P:[peter01]) drive the (empty) CD drive labels
revert to:-
V:[ecs20rc4]
W:[ecs20rc4]
I suspect that the software was written "pre-USB" support on OS/2 and
may need updating to differentiate between removeable types - if that is
possible.
I'll report the above to the author as well and ask if there is any
chance of a fix/update.
Regards
Pete
- Posted by Peter Brown on April 23rd, 2008
Hi Nelson
Nelson M. G. Santiago wrote:
Thank You.
Having sent an email and just had it returned "address unknown" I was
going to Google to see if the author was still around somewhere.
Checking back here 1st it looks like you have saved me the trouble :-)
Regards
Pete
- Posted by Nelson M. G. Santiago on April 24th, 2008
In <SJLPj.100688$5i5.5626@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>, on 04/23/08
at 07:03 PM, Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> said:
You're welcome.
I informed him about the posts and he told me that you already had got
in touch with him.
Regards
Nelson
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- Posted by Peter Brown on April 24th, 2008
Hi Nelson
Nelson M. G. Santiago wrote:
I have received a response from Daniel stating that he will look into
fixing "these small, annoying problems" in the future :-)
Pete
- Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on April 25th, 2008
In <fuga6b$chb$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, on 04/20/2008
at 09:48 PM, Peter J Seymour <mozng@pjsey.demon.co.uk> said:
If nothing else, you can use the LABEL command or the REXX function
SysDriveInfo(drive) to get the label.
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