From: "florianx" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Max. drive letter, etc. (was Hard Disk 20gb and dos)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:42:42 +0100
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It should. OpenDOS 7.02 supports it, Dr-DOS 7.03? I don't know. It prints an
error messages, but I think it will be exapted. Try LASTDRIVE=32 in
(d)config.sys.

Bye, Florian


>Oh, yeah - that reminds me ... does anyone know for
>certain that this 24 drive limit is real, or are people
>simply assuming this because there are about 24
>letters (26 actually) in the English alphabet?
>
>I remember reading an old Micro$oft manual that
>said you could have *more* drive letters than there
>were letters in the alphabet, so that the drives above
>"Z:" would be "[:" and so on, as per the ASCII
>character set ...