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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:09:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Partition (Slice) tables
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110208250.51005-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <39E34DC2.573C7635@newsguy.com>

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> > Regarding the earlier discussion on slice tables, I would like to add that
> > there is a legitimate reason for the BIOS to demand a valid slice table. I
> > know a number of manufacturers look for a special partition type entry for
> > their suspend-to-disk feature. This recently came to my renewed attention,
> > as the IBM ThinkPad series now suspend to a partition type 165 (0xA5).

> Stupid idiot bastards!

While possibly an overstatement, I concur that they have been less than
desireably brilliant ;)

The BIOSes can apparently not be fixed anytime soon.

Marius



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