On Friday, 15 December 2000 at 2:20:40 -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
>> Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they
>> don't recognize the dedicated format?
>
> There are times when the politically-correct of the world use the term
> "proprietary" when they actually mean "dumb" or "really badly
> designed". But yes, that's what it means... :)
To be fair, the dedicated fake partition table format is a hack. It's
too difficult to figure out what the real geometry is, so it invents
one which should "do the job". Some BIOSes check the table and find
it wanting. It's a grey area.
Greg
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