Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/12/20:50:15
It's scary when the SUBJECT is so long you have to snip it! :)
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 04:14:56 -0500 (EST) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
writes:
>On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
>> > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
>>
>> > > And a question:
>> > > I read (in the mailing list) that a harddisk can only supprt 4
>partitions.
>> > > But is this a hardware limit or a software limit?
>> >
>> > Hardware.
>>
>> SOFTWARE! MBR Limitation!
>
>Compromise - FIRMWARE (Software in hardware ie:ROM BIOS).
Okay - now I'm getting confused. Hows this:
Someone post the REASONS it's hardware,
Someone post the REASONS it's software,
Someone post the REASONS it's both.
Then, maybe I'll still be confused, but at least I'll know a lot more :)
...Chambers
>
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