Recently posted in this list: >(Alain Mouette) >No it has never been illegal, and it always worked >just fine. I use these since forever... what happened >is that most tools did not have a way of making them, >but if you know how to make them it allways worked >since MSDOS-3.
>(Liam Proven) > You have been lucky. I have seen many incorrectly- >partitioned systems with multiple primaries where >some drives were not visible, on various versions >of MS-DOS and up to Windows 95. >(Alain Mouette) >Not Lucky, just hard work. Partitions were invented >without extended partitions, so it worked from the >first... >FYI: I started using PC-DOS 1.1... so I have a long >history of dos and don'ts... I do not have as long experience as either of you, but at least MSDOS 5.0 and PCDOS 6.3 (copies which I keep now, in original floppies) look for just one DOS primary and one DOS extended partition in each partition table. If there are more than one, the others are ignored. DRDOS and FreeDOS search all the partition table. AFAIK, DOS partitions were invented in MSDOS 3.3, to work around the 32 MB disk size limit, and from the beginning they had the primary/extended options. The reason was that the number of sectors before a partition was still limited to 64 Ki so the extended partition was needed, in order to provide a new origin in the disk. Anyway, this discussion is going astray from the original problem of Marcos Favero, for FDISK should have created the FAT 16 partitions he requested, whether or not some DOS versions could find all of them. Regards JAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
