duffmckagan <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the information, and removing away my
> misconception. This mailing list rocks. :)
I recently did a (quickly hacked together) set of
presentations for the St. Louis UNIX User's Group which is
local to my current client. They cover a _lot_ of the
"low-level" interoperability issues between Linux and
Windows, almost all of which are inherent Windows issues
(e.g., issues with NTFS' design).
Probably of greatest interests are Part I which gives some PC
basic disk geometry/slicing intro/coverage in the
mid-to-latter slides:
http://www.geocities.com/thebs413/SLUUG_LowLevelInterop_Part1.pdf
As well as Part II that talks about Linux's 100% standards
compliance to ATA and BIOS Extended Interrupt 13h Disk
Services and various issues "buggy BIOSes" (which are still
commonplace *COUGH*IBM*COUGH*) plus Microsoft's _lack_ of
standards in the early slides:
http://www.geocities.com/thebs413/SLUUG_LowLevelInterop_Part2.pdf
Although you might want to read Part III which also covers
more about why NTFS is such an interoperability pain for
Windows NT/2000/XP systems themselves here:
http://www.geocities.com/thebs413/SLUUG_LowLevelInterop_Part3.pdf
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