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
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