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To: Glendon Gross <gross@clones.com>
Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) 
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.20.0012142113360.9249-100000@mail.clones.com> Glendon Gross writes:
: Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they
: don't recognize the dedicated format?

One could say that, however the fake disk label for dedicated disks is
a problem.  The BIOS shouldn't know about partitions, but many do.
There's a older Dell machine at work that I'm fighting over this issue
right now :-(.

Warner


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