Linda Proulx wrote to Andy Roberts on 11-08-1999

LP> This is a common belief, but wrong, at least for DOS and Win95. 
LP> These 2 OS's do see all the primary partitions on a single hard
LP> drive.  Your machine is living proof (at least for DOS).  I can't
LP> swear to it, but I'm almost sure that OS/2 would also see them all.
 
Sorry, Linda, but at most one primary partition per physical disk can
be seen AS A DISK VOLUME by DOS, W9x, NT, OS/2, or a compliant PC
BIOS.
 The fdisk program from any of these will see multiple primary
partitions but only one can be marked as active\visible at any one
time and used as a disk volume.  DOS - at least thru 6.22 - will not
even permit creation of more than one primary partition on a single disk
unit altho it deals with the presence of multiple primaries in a
predictable manner.  I understand that LINUX can allow visibility of
multip[le primaries, but I've never tried it.
 
Will Honea 
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