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From: "White Dragon" <white DOT dragon AT tin DOT it>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Max. drive letter, etc. (was Hard Disk 20gb and dos)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:17:46 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>

>      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?).

why have a 128 devices system, while you can have a raid system seen as 1
disk?