In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kai Henningsen 
writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Early)  wrote on 28.01.96 in 
<Pine.LNX.3.91.9601281
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
>>
>> > Are debian's boot and root disks able to deal with Ontrack 
"Dynamic
>> > Disk Overlay" used on large IDE drives?
>>
>> As far as I know, Linux will not work at all with this 
program.
>
>I seem to remember that support for several partition schemes 
like this  
>has recently - whatever that means - added to the kernel. Newer 
kernels  
>should probably work.
>
>
>MfG Kai
>
>

        At startup DDO replaces the BIOS calls that DOS uses to read 
and write to the drive.  If you look at the partition table for 
this it's labeled as a non-DOS partition.  It moves the FAT 
table to somewhere else on the drive making it pretty much 
useless to anything that doesn't talk DDO.

--Chris

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