[CLUE-Tech] FreeBSD [was Re: Nessus]

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Sat Aug 16 21:56:41 MDT 2003


It is a PC thing. It probably came from the same place as:

	You don't need more that 640K ram.

:-)

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:16:58 -0600
"Warren" <warren at guano.org> wrote:

> David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> 
>  > "There can only be four physical slices on a disk, but you can have
>  > logical slices inside physical slices of the appropriate type."
> 
> I've long wondered where the 4 primary partition limit comes from.  Is
> it an IDE limitation?  BIOS?  Is there a 4-partition limit on SCSI
> drives?



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