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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:06:44 +0000
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From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
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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.

-- 
DrDebug

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