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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:20:27 +0300 (MSK)
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Subject: RE: Max. drive letter, etc. (was Hard Disk 20gb and dos)
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σΑΜΡΝ!

16-ζΕΧ-2001 18:32 Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com (da Silva, Joe) wrote to
"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

dJ> Oh, yeah - that reminds me ... does anyone know for
dJ> certain that this 24 drive limit is real, or are people
dJ> simply assuming this because there are about 24
dJ> letters (26 actually) in the English alphabet?

     This depends from what you see. BIOS INT 13 accepts HD's number from
80h to FFh (i.e. 128). On the other side, IDE supports only four devices,
whereas SCSI support 7-15 devices in chain (and how many SCSI cards you may
add at mainboards?).