Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:55:31 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: avg@icyb.net.ua, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check Message-ID: <3158041B-8E00-4A87-8172-741C0AE57131@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Noh4B-000JjD-5u@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1Noh4B-000JjD-5u@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Pete French wrote: >> 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 ? Ask Microsoft. So far I've only seen violations to the spec. At least Apple kept to the spirit of it... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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