RE: [coLinux-devel] Problems with \Device\HarddiskVolumeX

[Sean B. <sea...@so...>]

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> From: col...@li...
> [mailto:col...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Clemmitt M. Sigler
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:19 PM
> To: Sean Brook
> Cc: col...@li...
> Subject: RE: [coLinux-devel] Problems with \Device\HarddiskVolumeX
> 
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Sean Brook wrote:
> > You need to look at things from a logical point of view and not
> > physical.
> <snip>
> > > 1.) Is the primary master IDE disk Harddisk0, the primary slave
> > > Harddisk1,
> > > the secondary master Harddisk2, and the secondary slave Harddisk3?
> > Yes. But logical, not physical.
> 
> Thank you for your feedback.  Perhaps what I meant to ask is,
> "What is the logic behind the assignment/naming of the 
> logical disk devices in Windows 2K/XP?"
I really dont know. I have never needed to know what the scheme is
behind numbering of logical disk drives. 
From what I know with IDE drives only the numbering would be as above.
AFAIAC the drive numbering would be what you would expect in a physical
sense. When you take into account other storage technologies eg scsi
included with others it could change things again. All depends what the
boot drive is I suppose. As a side point Windows NT considers all drives
to be scsi and supported partitions can be mapped to different drive
letters. Throw fault tolerance into it and it would get really confusing
to predict.
Anyhoo, why do you want to know the logic behind this?

> 
> As I say, I just don't fully understand.  I've spent a few
> hours searching on Google and MSDN trying to find an answer, 
> to no avail :^(  
> TIA.
IMO just follow whats in logical disk manager and save your sanity ;)

> 
> 					Clemmitt
> 
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