[Techtalk] Extended Partitions - I found it! - QUITE! :)

[Brenda Bell]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:35:40 +0100
Hamster <hamster at hamsternet.org> wrote:

> Well I guess the subject line is a matter of opinion. As far as I'm
> concerned my question is still unanswered. You've simply stated "use 0x85"
> without explaining why. Except for what Brenda said about the use of
> INT13 by dos based OSs, I'm still none the wiser as to the differences
> between the two. Is that the only difference?

Take a look at http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips120.shtml... it's pretty much specific to NT, but it will give you a brief description of the way INT13 works and the restrictions you'll need to deal with if you use it.  If the target partition is small (<7.5Gb), the restrictions won't matter and you might pick up some performance ***if*** Linux uses low-level BIOS functions to read and write for this type of partition.

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