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Rod Speed wrote in message <1awu3.4354$O_1.26500@ozemail.com.au>...
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>Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message news:7pdp53$fcc$1@mochi.lava.net...
>> Plato <25@62.4> wrote in message <37BA0B0F.5145@62.4>...
>>> Rod Speed wrote:
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>>>>>> It eliminates the problem of the drive lettering changing when you put another
>>>>>> hard drive into the system, if only as a destination for quick backups etc.
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>>>>> Thats why on every new system or redone system the cdrom get
>>>>> to be drive R and any other IDE nonHDD get letters after that
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>>>> Doesnt help with a boot drive with more than one partition
>>>> when you add a hard drive with a primary dos partition on it.
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>>> sure it does, your not going to reach drive R unless you
>>> have what, 18 partitions or so which is so unlikely no?
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>> Shows the stupidity of using the letters for drive names anyway.
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>True, its a real nuisance.
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>> You can put a label on each drive, but you
>> can't access them with the label. Why?
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>Its designed like that.

No shit Sherlock, you win the prize.  My mothers vacuum cleaner
was designed with a headlight too.  But stating that does not
explain why it was built that way.
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>> That is one of the nice things I remember from Linux, and the
>> little Unix I saw in the military.  You create a partition, either
>> the whole hard disk, or only part of it, and give it a volume
>> label.  Then you can access it with that volume label.
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>> Why didn't Microsoft think of this when they started?
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>There are awkwiditys with any OS.
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>You dont have to fart around recompiling the kernal, unlike unix quite a bit of the time.

Did I mention recompiling kernals and such?  I asked about
one simple feature that Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, did
not implement.  And by now they wish they had.  Why do you
think they finally have the Active Directory?  Not to mention
the industry standard things like fully qualified domain names,
URLs, and UNCs.
Networked computers being able to use 26 resources is
a joke.

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Aaron Marks
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