Colin Watson wrote:
>
> Unfortunately it seems that often even recent machines
> suffer from them.
> The date doesn't appear to be a good guideline.
BIOS barriers for IDE/SATA/SCSI disks, still? Nine years on since 137GB?
Now that's just laziness...
> I believe, but am not sure, that ata.mod is
Grégoire Sutre wrote:
>
> > Knowing that Windows would only mount the
> > first partition when the drive was plugged in
>
> Does this only apply to external hard drives?
Windows treats removable and fixed drives (as distinguished by what is called
the "removable media bit") differently, the diffe
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I rather suspect that the very problem
> being addressed
> there means that we won't be able to implement your
> idea automatically.
> Artificially renumbering the partitions of an existing
> operating system
> while installing Ubuntu would be likely to break
[Replying with Outlook, please forgive the atrocious formatting]
Isaac Dupree wrote:
>
> I accidentally have an out-of-order partition table
> and I was surprised
> that such a thing is possible (vs. that everything
> gets automatically
> numbered in order). Nevertheless, it is a useful
> feature
seem like a bad idea.
(Which is not to say I'm certain of all this; that it's a BIOS barrier issue
is only my hypothesis, consistent with what I've observed. Folks here might be
aware of something else that may have been going on.)
--Daniel
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