-=> Quoting Lawrence R. Mintz to Rodrigo Cesar Banhara <=-
LRM> The limit on logical drives is simply the
LRM> letters of the alphabet (for drive designations) left over after all
LRM> the primary partitions have been assigned. That is true for DOS, all
LRM> flavors of Windows and OS/2.
LE> Actually, under at least some versions of DOS the limits are a bit
> broader. We had a LAN that ran under DOS 2.x. And you could not only
> have drives A-Z, but also @:, [:, and ]: I'm not sure if it allowed \:,
> ^: or _:.
T'was the NetWare redirector that enabled drive ID's beyond Z...
so far as I know, no other NOS allowed that.
LRA
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