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SubjectRe: ULTRA DMA HDD
As he said, DOS can't handle more than one.  He didn't say anything about
linux having that limitation.

On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Lance Dillon wrote:

> BYRON VALDIVIESO wrote:
> >
> >
> > AFAIK DOS can't handle more that one Primary Partition, so
> > you should create Extended one, and some Logical inside of it.
> >
> > About optimization of disk space, with FAT16 number of sectors per
> > cluster depends on size of DOS Partition. Optimal size is 512MB,
> > but if you want bigger one use up to 1024KB.
> >
> >
>
> actually, my 2.7g has 4 primary partitions, and no extended. 250 ext2,
> 950 dos/win95, 24 swap, 1200 ext2
>
>
> lsd
>

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