Re: partition table: chs question

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 04:11:56 +0100


On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:02:09PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> Please also check vger.timpanogas.org/nwfs/nwfs.tar.gz:disk.c for NetWare
> specific calculations of the CHS values, a different method is used for
> NetWare partitions vs. everything else (Novell just had to be different).

> > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> >
> > > for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what
> > > should the c/h/s start and end value be ?
> > >
> > > most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023.
> > > but partition magic creates partitions with start set to
> > > 0/1/1023 and end set to 255/63/1023, and detects a problem
> > > if start is set to 255/63/1023.

Good. I added this to
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html#above1024chs

Now that I looked at this disk.c anyway: it has a table of
partition types, and it seems I collect these.
(See http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html )
Are types 57 and 77, labeled "VNDI Partition", actually in use?

Andries
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