Re: "Dynamic Disk Overlay": do debian boot and root ...
In message <[🔎] 61hfYZvjcsB@khms.westfalen.de>, Kai Henningsen
writes:
>sde1000@cam.ac.uk (Stephen Early) wrote on 28.01.96 in
<Pine.LNX.3.91.9601281
>30244.16599C-100000@myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk>:
>
>> 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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