duffmckagan mckagan@gmail.com 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