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Have been told that Win XP has a limited default capability as to the number
of drives it will support, i.e. disks real and 'virtual' (eg. digital
cameras etc.).
Any information and advice appreeciated
Chris

The easiest answer to this question is, How many letters are there in the
alphabet?.



"Christine" <> wrote in message
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> Have been told that Win XP has a limited default capability as to the
> number of drives it will support, i.e. disks real and 'virtual' (eg.
> digital cameras etc.).
> Any information and advice appreeciated
> Chris
>

"Christine" <> wrote in message
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> Have been told that Win XP has a limited default capability as to the
> number of drives it will support, i.e. disks real and 'virtual' (eg.
> digital cameras etc.).
> Any information and advice appreeciated
> Chris

This PC has 10 disks + 2 virtual and XP has not complained.


MJP

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:42:07 -0000, "David Griffin" <>
wrote:

>The easiest answer to this question is, How many letters are there in the
>alphabet?.
>
Theoretically, XP will support many more than that.

And they can easily be created...with other software.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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"Christine" <> wrote in
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> Have been told that Win XP has a limited default capability as to the
> number of drives it will support, i.e. disks real and 'virtual' (eg.
> digital cameras etc.).
> Any information and advice appreeciated
> Chris
>
>

As far as I know it's virtually unlimited. When you run out of drive
letters, you can mount the drives in a NTFS directory, with
'Disk management'

"Ingeborg" <> wrote in message
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| "Christine" <> wrote in
| news:Exiqd.47$:
|
| > Have been told that Win XP has a limited default capability as to the
| > number of drives it will support, i.e. disks real and 'virtual' (eg.
| > digital cameras etc.).
| > Any information and advice appreeciated
| > Chris
| >
| >
|
| As far as I know it's virtually unlimited. When you run out of drive
| letters, you can mount the drives in a NTFS directory, with
| 'Disk management'

Yeah - I just played with that myself last week. Way cool! We used to do
that on old MFM/RLL drives on the IBM PC-XT. And at work on my Novell
network RAID array, I appended two new 36G drives to the existing 9G
drives - Netware didn't skip a beat.

"Toolman Tim" <> wrote in
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> Yeah - I just played with that myself last week. Way cool! We used to do
> that on old MFM/RLL drives on the IBM PC-XT. And at work on my Novell
> network RAID array, I appended two new 36G drives to the existing 9G
> drives - Netware didn't skip a beat.

How did you do that on a XT?

"Ingeborg" <> wrote in message
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| "Toolman Tim" <> wrote in
| news:7rnqd.23287$:
|
| > Yeah - I just played with that myself last week. Way cool! We used to do
| > that on old MFM/RLL drives on the IBM PC-XT. And at work on my Novell
| > network RAID array, I appended two new 36G drives to the existing 9G
| > drives - Netware didn't skip a beat.
|
| How did you do that on a XT?

Geez - you would ask that <g>! I had to go dig through the boxes (and I mean
BIG boxes) of old software on my 5-1/4" (low density no less!) diskettes...

It was a partitioning/formatting utility called Speedstor.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...n_details.html

I think the feature was called "expansion" or something like that. But I
don't have the hardware around to even boot the floppy anymore to see <g>

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:38:46 -0800, "Toolman Tim"
<> wrote:


>Geez - you would ask that <g>! I had to go dig through the boxes (and I mean
>BIG boxes) of old software on my 5-1/4" (low density no less!) diskettes...
>
>It was a partitioning/formatting utility called Speedstor.
>http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...n_details.html
Thanks for bringing back the memories, just not sure if their welcome
though :-{{}

>I think the feature was called "expansion" or something like that. But I
>don't have the hardware around to even boot the floppy anymore to see <g>
>

"Duck ducking" <> wrote in message
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| On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:38:46 -0800, "Toolman Tim"
| <> wrote:
|
|
| >Geez - you would ask that <g>! I had to go dig through the boxes (and I
mean
| >BIG boxes) of old software on my 5-1/4" (low density no less!)
diskettes...
| >
| >It was a partitioning/formatting utility called Speedstor.
| >http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...n_details.html
|
| Thanks for bringing back the memories, just not sure if their welcome
| though :-{{}
|
Yeah - I had my share of fun during that era - Seagate ST225 drives (MFM)
put on RLL controllers and running them as if they were ST238s. Custom
formatting a few extra cylinders into the HD...anything to squeeze any extra
possible space out of a drive. Forcing two different controllers to co-exist
in the same system when the new drive was IDE and the old was MFM and I
*had* to get the data transferred (pre networking days for me). You're
right - the memories are rather ambivalent <g>!