well, ok i forgot momentarily about the structure for extended partitions . anyways... correct the choices are fabulous in the world of open source... it has been my experience that knoppix handles drive letters pretty well. on my machine at home i have 2 20GB western digital drives (primary master and slave) and 2 20GB scsi drives (adaptech scsi controller) on my secondary ide i have an atapi 52x cd-rom and for the slave a creative labs 8x4x32 cd-rw (i know, i know, the creatives are pieces of crap) all goes well other than that my creative only burns at 4x now (because of age). knoppix has not had any issues with drive assignments as i also, on the same machine, have a USB LS-240 SuperDisk Drive, a USB 128Mb Universal Smart Drive, and occasionally a USB floppy disk drive. You can see that i do not have a hard disk as HDC but i would imagine that if it can handle all of the other equipment that it should be able to handle a HDC device... I do have an extra disk at home.. i think i might try hooking it up sometime to see if i get the same issue... ttyl

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