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| 39251 | 2002-03-14 23:17:00 | I have been unable to find anything about this online so far, so I thought there may just be somebody here who knows. Can you go above Z somehow with drives in windows? Heres my situation. I bought 30 SCSI drives second-hand and a new SCSI card capable of supporting all 30 drives (these are HV differential drives so the card was very expensive). All I want to do is install all 30 drives with their own drive letters but of course there are ony 26 letters in the alphabet and Windows insists on A+B being given to Floppies so I only have 24 letters left. I do not want to use any sort of Raid as I have a reason to want to install all the drives under their own letters. So its up to the geeks present to explain how I can do it or why I cannot. |
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| 39252 | 2002-03-14 23:57:00 | How about trying a Chinese version of Win - they have 1000's of 'letters'! ;-) | Guest (0) | ||
| 39253 | 2002-03-15 00:04:00 | www.microsoft.com Here is the Microsoft page on setting up more than 26 drives, hopefully you will be able to decipher something useful for your situation. So whats the plan...store all your files alphabeticaly?? Oh well I hope this helps |
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| 39254 | 2002-03-15 00:41:00 | Actually Tazzie I am going to do some experiments with 'virtualised' CDRom drives on a network I have at home. Can't tell you exactly what yet but there may be a interesting business angle to it. thanks for the link!...... I think! Why is it everything I want to do is bloody complicated! (could be stupidity I suppose ) :-)) |
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| 39255 | 2002-03-15 06:17:00 | Could you fit = in another computer and network the two computers. | Guest (0) | ||
| 39256 | 2002-03-15 12:34:00 | I wish I could Eric but its a financial thing. Because the drives are HV (high voltage) differential the cards that support them are very expensive (over $1000). I just cannot afford a second such card unfortunately. I never thought about the fact that maybe Microsoft would not make it easy to go above Z. I assumed they would just allow for double lettering so the next drive after Z would be AA then AB,AC etc but apparently something like that did not occur to them. Typical MS oversight really!! I mean 26 drives is never going to be enough for us nutters and they should have designed for us (I mean you gotta be nuts to use Windows anyway). :-)) I looked into Linux but 'virtualising' drives to look like CDRoms in Linux is a 'black art' to say the least - one which i am not prepared to undertake. |
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