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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Does MINIX have its own partition code?
Summary: Let's not forget PC/IX
Message-ID: <2558@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 09:35:14 GMT
References: <5820009@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <4474@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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In article <4474@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> In article <5820009@hpcupt1.HP.COM> swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes:
> >My question is:  has the Minix community settled on a code of its own?
> I hacked fdisk to use 0x08, but I have now learned that AIX uses this.
> Bruce Evans is now working on fdisk.  What I would really like to to get
> an official partition code assigned by the Assigner of Codes.
> 
> Does anybody know who the Assigner of Codes is?  IBM? Microsoft? Seagate?

Let's not forget PC/IX; since it's from IBM I presume its code
is as official as you can get.

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