Chris Gehlker wrote:

>> Many hardware manufacturers use the R: & S: drives for CD, CD-R, DVD
>> drives so while it might sound good, it may require 're-assigning' the
>> letter of the drive on some machines.
> 
> 
> There had to be a reason to avoid S: for shared. I thought the 
> convection was that optical drives are G: and H:.

Many 'server' drives are mapped to S: in business evironments. My 
previous employer mapped the server to S: as well as a company they 
acquired (the acquired co used an entirely different server OS so that 
created its own problems)

Patrick