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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >
> > Every platform that supports USB will be able to read USB Storage
> > Devices which almost everytime have FAT filesystems with MSDOS partitions.
> >
> > So short of S/390 you get like every platform.
>
> And short of most embedded systems.

CF cards - these have MSDOS partition tables on. CF cards get used on
embedded systems.

Therefore, it follows that if you have an embedded system with a CF socket,
you'll probably want the MSDOS partitioning enabled.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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