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Re: support for more cd-rom drive letters?



ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) wrote:                            
                                                                          
>   David> this is a big problem for me since i'm forced to use up all    
>   David> my low drive letters on my hard drives.                        
>                                                                         
> We can probably adjust this to be higher, although if I and J aren't    
> working currently, I don't know what we'll do, since the way we'd       
> extend it is the same way we get up to J (or at least we think we do)   
> currently.                                                              
                                                                          
Why not allow the CD-ROM to use letters all the way to Z:, since that's   
the usual lastdrive limit for DOS, OS/2, etc.?                            
                                                                          
It's not that uncommon.  In my current configuration here, for example,   
I use C: thru J: for hard drive partitions (my CD-ROM is drive K: now),   
and I'll likely add several more when I add another physical drive here.  
                                                                          
(If you're curious why I did this: I split my 620MB of drive space into   
little 80-85MB chunks so that each fits on one DC2120 tape using my little
Jumbo 120 (QIC-40) drive.  It makes backups easier to organize, and lets  
me experiment with several filesystems/OS's with minimal fuss.)           
                                                                          
Just so you know some of us actually *use* a lot of letters...  <Grin>    
 
-Rich Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com is my preferred e-mail address)



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