Barry Watzman wrote:
> As to the other part of the question, why it's called an "EISA"
> partition: This was answered previously, but back in the 1980's when
> Compaq and Zenith were doing their own thing to compete with IBM's
> then-new Micro-channel (MCA) architecture, they came up with the EISA
> architecture, and part of that was a provision for putting configuration
> information in a hidden, protected partition on the hard drive. This
> partition was given a "partition type" of 12H (18 decimal) and called an
> EISA partition. Currently, it has become common (although not
> universal) practice now to use this partition type (12H/18D) for
> manufacturer specific diagnostic / restore partitons, but various disk
> software (including Computer Management / Disk Management in MS OS')
> calls a partition with this type an "EISA" partition, notwithstanding
> that both Micro-channel and EISA died two decades ago [the market
> ignored both of them and stayed with the ISA bus (augmented, for a time,
> by the Vesa VL bus) until PCI came along in about 1995]. But partitions
> with that partition type still get tagged as an EISA partition by
> various disk software.

Why have you written the above to look like you were answering the question?

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Adrian C