Yeah; get a Mac, and then you can name your drives whatever you want, with none of this drive letter nonsense.
Rick (who uses a PC for work, but vastly prefers the Macs at home) --- Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still working away at moving my photo libraries > off DVD's and CD's > to external USB drives. > > Now that I'm using the external drives I'm > encountering a problem - they > are mapping to whatever drive letter is available, > sometimes seemingly > randomly. Thumbs plus works off of the volume name > so my thumbnail > database is OK - but it's annoying to have to turn > on a drive a then > have to hunt around for it. > > Drive letters are affected by the order in which the > drives are turned > on, and other devices (like jumpdrives or the PD70x > remote storage > device) that are hooked up in advance.) Is there a > way to permanently > assign drive letters to these things? > > To give an example - I just turned on all 5 USB2 > drives, with no jump > drives or other devices attached. The volume labels > reflect the order in > which I would like to see the drives. The core > system has drives A,C,D, > E, and F. The 5 drives that I just fired up (labeled > Book01 - Book05) > mapped out as follows: > > Book01 - J: > Book02 - H: > Book03 - I: > Book04 - O: > Book05 - K: > > Any ideas how I can get these things in line? I > thought there was > something int he hardware manager where you could > force a drive to own a > certain letter, but I can't seem to find that. > > Thanks - > > MCC > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
