Mumia W.. wrote:
On 06/06/2007 01:01 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:[...] The BIOS has nothing to do with disc partitions. The BIOS works either at an absolute physical level using geometric address: cylinder, head, sector, or at a logical physical level (LBA) using logical sector number. It has no other conception of the disc. [...]It depends on the BIOS. I recently upgraded the BIOS on my father's computer, and I discovered that the new BIOS provided the option of partitioning the hard disk--but it only does MSDOS-type partitions.
Interesting wrinkle.
Mike
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