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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:04:08 +0300 (MSK)
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Subject: Re: Max. drive letter, etc. (was Hard Disk 20gb and dos)
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Hi!

16-ζΕΧ-2001 18:17 white DOT dragon AT tin DOT it (White Dragon) wrote to
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

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

     This is another story - source question ask how to number all disk
_which me see_. If RAID controller presents many disks as one disk then this
is not raises source question.