Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:31 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: avg@icyb.net.ua, xcllnt@mac.com Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check Message-ID: <E1Noh4B-000JjD-5u@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <761C8533-B1DC-4DC7-8B2E-9CB1A8A5BEF8@mac.com>
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> To clarify: the protective MBR is there only to protect the GPT > disk from tools that do not understand the GPT. Any GPT-aware > tool will treat the disk as a GPT disk. Consequently: the MBR > is inferior to the GPT... The queston is then, why isn't Windows treating it as GPT ? It's all very nice in theory, but if the practical upshot is that we get flash media which will read perfectly well in all operating systems except for BSD then thats not a good result, even if it is theoretically correct. Which is the situation the original poster appeared to have. -pete.
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