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From: Richard Steiner <RSTEINER@DELPHI.COM>
Subject: Re: support for more cd-rom drive letters?
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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)