Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:17:09 +0000
From:	Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: * [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
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mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 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!
> >
> > Allright...who's right?
> 
> The BIOS firmware.  The point being that it isn't the OS that
> decides how many primary partitions there are.
> 

IMHO, its mostly software and a little hareware.  Hardware dut to the
sector size (however, there is room in most MBR's for 8-16 partitions).
Software due to the MBR and all (?) OS's only checking for 4.

Bill
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Leave others their otherness.

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