Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Wayne Chirnside <=-

 WC> I've FOUR primary partitions, one FAT 32 and three Linux.
 WC> It sure was a strange malfunction.

 RJT> Yeah.  No anyway,  I don't know that w9x will or won't deal with more
 RJT> than one primary partition,  I know that in dos it wouldn't see 'em, 
 RJT> except that fdisk would say they were there,  but there was no way to
 RJT> access them.  And more than one in a system on multiple drives would
 RJT> scramble drive letters,  like having C: on the first drive,  D: on the
 RJT> second,  E: on the first,  and so forth. 

 JN>  On the 486-40 with W3.1 only because it came with it, I had drive 
 JN> #1 for drive C; drive #2 for drive D; and drive #3 connected to a 
 JN> second controller and partitioned into drives E, F, G and H. 

 JN>  And DOS "saw" all of them. 

Sure.  But what I was saying above was that it won't see more than one
primary on one drive.  And that if you have mixtures of primary and
extended partitions on more than one drive is when drive letters get
scrambled.

 JN> I ran the BBS on that 486, with the system files on one drive, 
 JN> messages on another (FidoNet, PoliceNet, FamilyNet, and SafNet -- 
 JN> RC and NC in the last 2), and files on a third, games on a fourth, 
 JN> etc. etc. etc.

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