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Subject: Re: OS-9
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philo wrote:

> I am back to fooling around with my old Mac. I have a lot of small SCSI
> drives that I've install OS9 on. One of the drives didn't boot.
>
> Before I put it in the recycle box, I had a look at it under Linux
> parted.
> There were 4 or 5 tiny partitions marked "unknown ."
> I'm guessing that's the boot manager.
>
> Anyone know what they are for?

Did you look at the partitions' types in Linux? 'file -s /dev/?d??' or 
'fdisk -l|grep sd' (or 'hd')?

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