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From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: SCSI Partitioning
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Date: 11 Jun 91 11:48:18 GMT
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In article <KENW.91Jun10212746@skyler.arc.ab.ca>, kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes:
> Anybody know any applicable hacks?

Hacks, no, but Silverlining 5.28 will do what you want, and tons more. I have
6.0.7 and 7.0 together on my drive.

> Is SCSI partitioning really "hard" partitioning?

I believe "hard" means at the SCSI level, "soft" means pseudo-partitions
mapped to files. Oh, if the soft partitioning software you speak of is
SUM Partition, it doesn't work properly under 7.0 anyway. Soft partitions have
their uses (well, one) but hard partitioning is so much cleaner and avoids a
lot of drawbacks associated with soft partitioning.

> How does it work?

Ah, now that I don't know. Serious woojy-woojy magic, I expect.


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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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