In article <2192fd$aq9@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:

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>NB. The cause of the problem is that DR-dos masks off the top bit, and
>so paritition ID's of 81 etc map to 01 etc, which are dos ID's.
>
>Michael.

I believe that the problem is that DR-DOS 6.0 uses the top bit of the
normal DOS partition codes to indicate that the partition is 'secure'
and subject to its passwording routines.

Just my 0.02p

-- Clive Hills