[Virtualacorn-list] Reading floppies

[Chris Newman]

In article <mpro.o255ku000nl8c0dw4.atdotcodotuk at dotcodotukat.co.uk>,
   Vince M Hudd <atdotcodotuk at dotcodotukat.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Newman <cvjazz at waitrose.com> wrote:

> > I'm re-visiting my old laptop which has an internal floppy drive which can
> > read Acorn discs in VA.
>  
> > If I install VA in a separate partition rather than the C drive (an
> > arrangement which works well on my other machine) will the Direct Floppy
> > Driver still be able to 'see' the floppy drive?

> It should be able to - all you are doing by putting VA in a separate
> partition is changing where it's run from. The important point is that it's
> still running on the same computer, in the same environment, and should
> therefore still be able to access the same hardware attached to the
> computer.

Ta.
> -- 
> Vince M Hudd
> Soft Rock Software

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-- 
Chris