Windows drive mapping conventions

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.
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> 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