andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann) (01/17/90)
I have written a program that reads the partition table, and displays what type of partition(s) you have. So far, I've been able to identify the following (all values in hex): 00=none 01=12-bit DOS 02=Xenix 03=Xenix (any different from 02??) 04=16-bit DOS, 32M limit 05=16-bit DOS, extended partition (<=32M) 06=16-bit DOS, >32M 08=Split (??) 51=Disk Manager 56=GB (??) 61=Speedstor (?) 64=Novell 75=PC/IX DB=CP/M FF=BBT (?) The ones marked with (?) I'm not so sure of, or what they actually are. I would be interested in knowing of any other partition values. Does anyone have information on how Disk Manager (and maybe others) allows up to 16 partitions? How do I read the logical disks inside a DOS extended partition? What is the exact format of Partition entries? You can email me at: andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <someplace>!ddsw1!andyross, or andyross@igloo.SCUM.COM. Andrew Rossmann andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM