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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extended DOS partition support status ?
Date: 9 Jan 1996 05:05:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <4crg9b$ii@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
DABLOODGOD <dabloodgod@aol.com> wrote:
>I believe that I read that Extended Dos partitions were or were nearly
>supported in v2.1. How close to working is that code - how would I try it
>on my fairly vanilla pentium with adaptec 2940 scsi ?

They're mapped starting at `slice 5' (after the 4 possible MBR slices).
E.g.:

	/dev/sd0s5	-> D:
	/dev/sd0s6	-> E:

At least if I understand the latest explanation from Bruce.. :-)

					Jordan