Hi Jonathan,

 MR> Now, if we could kill the convention of 
 MR> assigning letters to primary
 MR> partitions first, things could be a lot easier.

 JdBP> What mechanism *would* you have to assign drive letters, then ?

How about the method used by unix? The boot partition is the Root, everything
else is mounted from that without regard to the partition type. To maintain
compatibilty with drive letter dead S/W, the boot partition becomes C: and no
other letters are assigned for partitions/drives at all (CD's, etc, are also
mounted under the Root). Then the "issue" over the visibility and ordering of
primary/logical partitions goes away completely...

For those applications that MUST base themselves off a "drive" and cannot use
C: (for whatever reason), allow the USER controlled assignment of a drive
letter to point to a particular directory entry that satisfies the "old" drive 
letter based S/W (EG for CDROM drives)..

While this is a MAJOR change in the concept of partitions and drive letter
assignment to DOS/OS2/Windows people, it is a change that may not be that
large or difficult to implement (he says innocently)........;-)

Cheers........pk.


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