From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 4:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DE237B479; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id EAA13754; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:57:13 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13752; Mon Nov 20 04:57:05 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAKCutY12042; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdV12028; Mon Nov 20 04:56:32 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAKCuSO68175; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:56:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011201256.eAKCuSO68175@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdI68171; Mon Nov 20 04:56:27 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Greg Lehey Cc: "David O'Brien" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:20:44 +1030." <20001120192044.Q58333@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:56:27 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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