From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 22:43:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA16473 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA16459 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speedy.pcscons.net by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0x5ljX-0006zpC; Mon, 1 Sep 97 22:42 PDT Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970901223928.00714ac4@mail.sns.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.sns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 22:39:28 -0700 To: "Marty Leisner" , Doug White From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: fips from win95 Cc: "Brian N. Handy" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9709020248.AA00531@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:48 PM 9/1/97 PDT, Marty Leisner wrote: >Maybe not... from fips (last year some time), it doesn't understand >some of the ofther fat16 partitions (I bought a laptop around thanksgiving >which had a paritition type of (I think) '0xE'. I re-ided it (I think) >and I was fine (but this was a royal pain in the arse). I think this may be the LBA-mode partition stuff that Micro$oft started with Win95. They introduced 2 new partition types (DOS Primary and DOS extented) which had something to do with LBA support. However, in typical Micro$oft fashion, Win95 would destroy your partitions if you had these partition types and did "Restart in MS DOS mode" under certain conditions (the patch for this is called the 'disk-type specific update' or something like that). However, running Win95's FDISK with the undocumented /X switch (typical M$) made it use the old, standard DOS partition types. I don't even think there's any practical difference between the new partition types and the old ones. --Ludwig Pummer ------------------------------------------------------------------ ludwigp@bigfoot.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page ^-- Updated 07/01/97