Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/12/11:19:07
In article <554A3E5693C AT its-med DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu DOT au>, Tony Stott
<Tony DOT Stott AT med DOT monash DOT edu DOT au> writes
>> All of this is assuming that you only have a single physical hard
>> disk present. If more than one disk is present, then the drive
>> lettering scheme changes significantly and ends up as this:
>> C: = first partition on first hard disk
>> D: = first partition on second hard disk
>> E: = first logical drive in extended partition on first disk
>> F: = second logical ...
>> G: = first logical drive in extended partition on SECOND disk
>
>Would it be possible to have the user actually assign the drive
>letters so that when you bung in a new drive your existing mappings
>are not all altered ??
That would be possible for some of the IFSs that will get written,
because you'd most likely be loading each partition onto a drive letter
(please don't whine about the terminoligy :)
And AFIIK, Stacker comes with a drive letter swapper, so it's entirely
possible that you could re-arrange them after the fact.
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