[GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Mon Oct 9 16:32:02 EDT 2017


On 10/09/2017 04:24 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> The PC world is full of hardware and software of various levels of
> conformance to various "standards".
>
> As a consequence, when someone builds a new component, they often try
> to trick old components into working.  These tricks can sometimes be
> indistinguishable from bugs.

Many years ago, when I was a computer tech working on minicomputers, I
had to configure an 8" hard drive to emulate a Data General Zebra disk
pack drive.  I recall setting up the partition so that it looked right
to the operating system.


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