Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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