Re: Feedback needed on BOOTING, CACHING and some HELPER TOOL

X-Comment-To: Bart Oldeman

Салям!

7-Ноя-2002 14:58 [email protected] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to
[email protected]:

>>      How? How they (partitions on "floppies") will be called?
BO> There are no partitions on floppies.

     Do you mean that I can't make partitions, say, on ZIP diskette?

BO> Do you know of any BIOS that calls
BO> removable media with partitions a drive < 0x80?

     No one BIOS handles partitions at all, this is question of MBR, which
resides on disk (and on floppies it usually also is boot sector). BIOS
itself handles both disks and diskettes as sequence of sectors without
dealing with partitions (CHS or LBA - unimportant).

BO> If there isn't any then this is purely theoretical.
BO> If you use a block device driver or a redirector to address the
BO> removeable media (instead of the BIOS) then it would be assigned to a
BO> drive > B: (and DOS doesn't care how the partitions are organized).