Messages in this thread | | | From | Taral <> | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: New MBR and partitioning standard? | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:27:45 -0600 |
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On Sat, 06 Mar 1999, Dave Cinege wrote: >Isn't it about time the x86 platform supported more then 4 'real' partitions? > >I'm getting really sick of this limitation and was thinking of sitting down >with some peers, drafting a new extended MBR standard, then submitting it OS >vendors. > >For instance, the first partition is (generally) started on the 65th sector. >That leaves 63 512byte sectors that are always free. Why not extend the normal >partition entires say 16 sectors (== about 512 16byte partition entires), >and reserve the remaining sectors for extended MBR code? (IE the code in >sector 0, hops to sector 18)
Why wait for general acceptance? An extension of this sort can be implemented OS-by-OS, with non-compatible OS's using the old extended partition system. Just put some kind of checksum and magic number in the extended MBR area :)
Taral
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