Can someone point me at a place where Extended Disk Partition Table
stuff gets documented, if anywhere? A web site would be great.

.pm

Space Case writes:
> On Jul 5,  9:37pm, Grant Stockly wrote:
> >Sounds like you hve old BIOS that doesn't have an EDPT (Extended Disk
> >Partition Table) built in.  That means that the bios fakes the hard drive
> >cylinders/heads/and sectors to get win/dos to work.  If you install netbsd
> >or redhat, the FDISK that comes with those should work fine.
> 
> I've tried the install with the LBA config (1023/64/63) and CHS config
> (4092/16/63), giving the whole disk to NetBSD.  The install went just
> fine in both cases, but without Seagate's Disk Manager overlay, it just
> won't boot.  And I'm afraid that it was the overlay that was causing my
> first problem.  I'm starting to believe it's time for a new MB for this
> FPOS.  Hmm, unless I can find a replacement BIOS...  Anyone know where
> I'd look for one?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Steve
> 
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