From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Oct 10 6:14:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A4A37B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id PAA63932; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA47474; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: Greg Lehey Subject: Partition (Slice) tables Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Regarding the earlier discussion on slice tables, I would like to add that there is a legitimate reason for the BIOS to demand a valid slice table. I know a number of manufacturers look for a special partition type entry for their suspend-to-disk feature. This recently came to my renewed attention, as the IBM ThinkPad series now suspend to a partition type 165 (0xA5). Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message