Les Mikesell wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
There are more than one partitioning scheme. Any of them can be used with either SCSI or ATA. Whether software to allow this exists, I don't know. Partitioning schemes are conventions for partitioning drives, they are part of the format. They are not part of the physical access method. So SCSI and ATA, being physical access methods, are independent of format.
That's not to say that often by convention only certain formats are used with certain physical access methods.
It's a little more than convention in a normal PC. If you'd like to boot, you need a structure that bios understands.
The BIOS has nothing to do with the partition table layout. I have heard that some BIOS can lay down an MBR, but an MBR isn't even needed for boot.
Mike