>All labels are unique and contain the drive letter. Do you consider >DOS, W2K and Warp4 to be obscure? Also every partition has a directory >of the form "1_Name_X" where X is the drive letter. The one forces it >to sort at the top. So from any HDD utility or directory listing I know >the physical position of each partition.
The users self identity on a computer should not be intricately related to the OS that is in use. WARP4, W2K, DOS? what does that say about the *content* stored by that user? >I have an additional challenge. All my HDDs are front panel plug-in. >So I have to give each HDD a unique ID that is seen by HDD utilities. >If I was cloning or cleaning a drive and got it reversed that would not >be good. I have had a HDD utility swap drives 1 and 2 on it's display. Harddrive serial make and model or variant of such is what I use, that way I can see that yes it is from that seagate and not the western digital.. (I do this on my two tower machines with the shuttle drive bays) --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ >That is rare, but it did happen. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
