On Tuesday 23 November 2010 23:54:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life,

Well, you'd think so, but in my meddling days I hit my head on the 
ceiling. My other box, with whatever version of IDE was current then, 
had three more.

> and it's a hardware limitation not a software one so the driver can't
> be updated for this.

That's what I was asking about. What hardware limit is that?

> 24 drive letters has *nothing* to do with partition number limits.
> They are not even vaguely related.

Just, if you happened to have 24 partitions, Windows would be ready to 
label them all. Foresight? Windows? Must be a mirage.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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