Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:56:27 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011201256.eAKCuSO68175@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:20:44 %2B1030." <20001120192044.Q58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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In message <20001120192044.Q58333@echunga.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: > On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 23:57:25 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:53:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> If it shows valid partitions, you're using a Microsoft partition table. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Greg, can you read English?? Can you comprehend it?? Are you bind and in > > a write-only mode?? > > For the last time IT IS NOT A MICROSOFT PARTITION TABLE but a PC BIOS > > PARTITION TABLE AND DICTATED BY THE INTEL x86 PLATFORM. THEY ARE ALSO > > REQUIRED BY THE IA-64 PLATFORM. > > > > Why do you *insist* on calling it a "Microsoft partition table"?? > > Hmm. I was going to say "Because it was introduced with Microsoft > 2.0", but I'm no longer so sure. Reading the MS-DOS 2.11 source code, > it seems that they didn't have a partition table at the time. Can > anybody remember when it was introduced? IBM introduced it in the PC-XT. PC-DOS (not the same as MS-DOS) 2.0 wast the operating system shipped with the PC-XT. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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