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Subject: [announce] Each harddisk may contain up to 4 primary.
From: Cox SMTP central <shull@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:22:32 -0400
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In theory, there is no limitation in the number of extended partitions on a 
harddisk. However, as written above, many operating systems cannot be started 
from this kind of partitions. That is why these partitions are mostly used to 
store user data only.

There are further restrictions caused by historic design limitations. The PC 
BIOS addresses harddisk sectors by the so called CHS (cylinder-head-sector) 
addresses. In the early days of PCs, harddisks were really built up that way, 
but later on,  this way of addressing was only used to keep the operating 
systems compatible.

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