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

 MR> I'd be inclined to go with physical definition order.  

You mean to simply enumerate all volumes on a single drive before proceeding
to the next one ?

 MR> But my primary concern when writing the above was to criticize the 
 MR> practice of assigning letters to primary partitions on separate 
 MR> physical drives before assigning letters to any logical drives in 
 MR> extended partitions.

One can understand why it is this way, of course.  Choosing to enumerate all
primary partitions first made MS-DOS 3.3 backwards compatible with MS-DOS 3.2
.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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