Hi Bernd, Thanks for the links and the context. They look like they were a bad idea that was quickly reverted.
Mike On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM Bernd Böckmann <bernd-free...@boeckmann.io> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > seems this kind of partition type got introduced by FDISK version 0.96 [1] > in 1999. However, these were already removed by 1.0 RC2 [2], which got > released in 2001. The exact reason is unclear to me. Maybe someone involved > in the project at that time knows why the types were initially included and > - in our terms shortly - removed again. > > > [1]: > https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/blob/a6e3622c959707f1950df8ca4fe94046274ee1a9/doc/fdisk/history.txt#L1032 > [2]: > https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/blob/a6e3622c959707f1950df8ca4fe94046274ee1a9/doc/fdisk/history.txt#L288 > > Bernd > > > > Am 07.07.2025 um 07:33 schrieb Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel < > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > > > Over at the Wikipedia "List of partition IDs" 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 ... 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 Is the Wiki page wrong or out of date?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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-devel mailing list > > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > >
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