Will Honea wrote in a message to Linda Proulx:

 WH> I understand that LINUX can allow visibility of multip[le 
 WH> primaries, but I've never tried it.

Indeed it can.  I have the first drive in the Linux box here with two primary
partitions on it,  the second one being used as swap.  They show up as
/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.  When you use one primary and put the rest of stuff
into extended/logical,  the numbering jumps to /dev/hda5 and onwards,  which
is why I did it that way -- I like my numbering to be consecutive.  

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