Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:10:46 +0000
From: Tony Stott <Tony DOT Stott AT med DOT monash DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Cc: OpenDOS <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
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> Date:          Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:04:58 -0500 (EST)
> From:          mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> Subject:       Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
> Cc:            OpenDOS <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
> Reply-to:      mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> Organization:  Total disorganization.

> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> 
> > I was just wondering, ther are a lot of cool ideas of things we want to put
> > into OpenDOS, but...
*********************CHOP**CHOP**SNIP**SNIP***************
> 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
> etc...
> 

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 ??

Tony Stott 
Deputy Resources Manager                      
Department of Microbiology, Monash University,     
Clayton, 3168, Australia                   
phone +61 03 990 54845, fax +61 03 990 54811                 
tony DOT stott AT med DOT monash DOT edu DOT au
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