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

[Dennis J Perkins]

You can probably blame IBM.  It's a BIOS limitation and I think IBM was
the only BIOS writer for the PC market when hard drive support was added
to PCs.  This means that SCSI has the same limit on the PC.  Other
platforms would have different limits.

The BIOS is probably the most archaic part of a modern computer.  Maybe
one of the BIOS replacement projects will finally get rid of it.

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 21:56, Match Grun wrote:
> 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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