Over at the Wikipedia "List of partition IDs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type>" I was surprised to find
that FreeDOS FDISK has partition types defined for hidden FAT and Extended
partitions that have different type numbers than the standard hidden
versions of those.  For example, FreeDOS  FDISK defines 0x8D as Hidden
FAT12 and 0x90 as Hidden FAT 16.  Those are usually 0x11 and 0x14 in other
tools.

The source code says otherwise
<https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/blob/a6e3622c959707f1950df8ca4fe94046274ee1a9/source/fdisk/ui.c#L1960>
...  hiding or unhiding is valid for anything less that 0x20, and it's just
an XOR operation.

Is the Wiki page wrong or out of date?  What's the history here?


Mike
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