> I really can't see the problem with this, it sounds like a special
> case Acorn problem and in that case it is simple to disallow people to
> enable other partition table types on those machines.
The same problem arrises with Mips Disk Volume headers as used by MIPS,
SGI, SNI and a few other companies. The DVH is located on block zero
and for disks without a PC style boot block you may end up with a disk
which has two valid partition tables but no way to distinguish which one
is actually valid.
Ralf
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