Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Andy Roberts
on 11-09-99  19:32 about Re: Get Going...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> Andy Roberts wrote to Linda Proulx <=-
 
 AR> I am curious as to why.  What advantage does that have over using
 AR> Logical partitions?

 LP> You'll have to ask him.  if you really want to know I can give you his
 LP> email address. I knew. It has something to do about the weaknesses
 LP> inherent in logical partitions vs primarys. But I can't remember right
 LP> at the moment.

Sorry, but you're being fed nonsense.  If anything can be said to have a
weakness, it's a primary partition - there can only be four of this
creature on a drive.

If I were a paranoid fellow, I'd say primary partitions have one other
weakness as well - if a boot sector virus (acquired while booted to
DOS/Win95, no doubt) destroys the master boot record (which includes the
partition table where all primary partitions are defined), it'd be much
more difficult to restore the existing primary partitions than any existing
logical drives in the extended partition.  If there are no primary
partitions at all, restoring the drive's partitioning would be as simple as
location a single sector, and pointing to that sector with a single
partition entry in the newly repaird MBR.
 
 LP> Never.  He's going to help me with the repartitioning with his
 LP> Partition Magic & being a sounding board and making certain that I have
 LP> all the Warp drivers from the Inet. He has had little experience with
 LP> warp beyond installing once upon a time.

This should be taken by you as a big warning flag.  How can he be a guru if
he has little experience with OS/2?

That he's given you fundamentally incorrect information about DOS should be
leading you on a path towards parting company with his advice, if not his
person.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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