Mesajul original a fost trimis de Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> la data de Fri,
08 Jun 2001 08:14:03 PDT
> Thomas Mueller wrote (in part):
>
> > Under DOS and OS/2, only one primary partition on a hard drive can be
> > accessible at one time (same with Windows including NT/2000?), and I
> > thought that was an inherent limitation of the hardware until Linux
> > showed otherwise.
>
> The partition table in the MBR (and IDE drives, I think) can contain
> up to four entries for "primary" partitions. If there are logical
> partitions, one of these entries is a "container" partition for the
> logical partitions. There is not a problem accessing more than one
> primary partition under DOS. I have a 386 with MS-DOS, PTS-DOS and
> FreeDOS on separate bootable partitions. Each OS can readily access
> all three partitions.
> Ken Martwick
So it was only a DOS/Windows FDISK limitation then?
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Cristian Burneci
DHP Technology SRL
Bucharest, Romania
