From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Oct 10 10:12:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD6737B66F for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p46-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.111]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA23887; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:12:39 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39E34DC2.573C7635@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:11:30 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Partition (Slice) tables References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > 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). Stupid idiot bastards! -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@linux.bsdconspiracy.net the ants all left because mtn. dew is sold out again To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message