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From: JP Morris <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Organization: Aircraft Liberation Front
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Subject: Re: Exploding GO32 programs
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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:28:25 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, JP Morris wrote:
> 
> > I few months ago I got a 13gb IDE disk.
> > To make it work in DOS, it uses a driver called ontrackd.sys which
> > somehow
> > allows DOS to use the Int13 extensions and access type F extented
> > partitions.
> 
> What is type F extended partition?

Normally they are type 0x05 in the partition table.
These are type 0x0F in the partition table....

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Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1583 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1            1      260  2088418+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2   *      262      262     8032+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda3          503     1583  8683132+   f  Win95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/hda4          263      502  1927800   a5  BSD/386
/dev/hda5          503      763  2096451    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6          764     1024  2096451    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda7         1025     1285  2096451    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda8         1286     1546  2096451    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda9         1547     1583   297171   82  Linux swap

=====

hda3 is the extended partition, it is marked as 'Win95 Extended (LBA)'.
The ontrackd driver allows me to use all the partitions inside it
using DRDOS or MSDOS 6.x.
But DJGPP 1.x programs only run if it is not installed.

> > I want to run these programs.  Has anyone heard of this before?
> 
> I don't recall hearing anything like that.  Does the device driver come
> with a list of known conflicts with old software?

Remarkably I forgot to check.

> 
> Do DJGPP v2.x programs run?

Yes.  It only affects 1.x-compiled programs.

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